My inamorata works for a company that is, surprise surprise, experiencing economic difficulties. One area where they are hurting is web hosting. Their site is costing them about $600 a month, which is waaay out of line for their site: html with some Flash, nothing special, not even any video. It cha...

There are many reasons one might want to learn more information about a site they are visiting. Perhaps the site is a competitor that is beating you in the search engine rankings. It could be that the site is a spam blog or other site warranting an abuse report to their host. Maybe they are just cur...

Ever wondered what the network connection details actually mean? Physical Address: Also called the Media Access Control address, is a serial number that can uniquely identify your ethernet card or wireless adapter. IP Address: An Internet Protocol address is assigned by your LAN provider(say, a mode...

Sorry it took me so long to get back to this topic. In previous posts I started talking about the possibility of replacing DNSSEC with certificates. Obviously, this can be done technically, but is it a good idea? The basic argument here (advanced by Paul Vixie but also others) is that putting keys i...

So, I promised to write about the security issues of DNSSEC versus certificates but I realized that it helps to have a sense of how the DNS registration system works, so this post is about that. I'll get back to the topic soon, I promise. The important thing to remember is that DNS is a distributed ...

Image via Wikipedia Do you believe in fairies? Do you think they live down the bottom of your garden? If you do, then you might believe the "unlimited hosting" offer in this month's PC Live! magazine Until someone gets round to inventing an unlimited hard drive it is pretty much impossible to offer ...

iPhones, AT&T, and the University of Michigan..?! Help me sort out what is a - best I can figure - DNS issue! I will attempt to be brief and only cover the salient details. I work for the EECS Department at the University of Michigan doing IT support. I am the desktop support guy. In our departm...

"There is no saving the internet. There is only postponing the inevitable." Wired Magazine looks at the history of DNS and the Kaminsky attack. Kaminsky, previously Open DNS, previously...

Hello. I’ve been wondering a bit about the way technology news is still ghettoised. I don’t mean news about the latest rubbish web 2.0 start-up with a ridiculous name. I mean quite important stuff. Security problems and the like. Take what happened last week. A patch to fix a major flaw ...

Now that djbdns is public domain it can be included in Debian-based distributions. Gerrit Pape has done the hard work of packaging everything up and submitting to the ftpmasters at Debian, and it looks to have been accepted into sid. I, however, run Ubuntu, which hasn't imported this package yet. Id...