Counting IPv6 in the DNS

At the recent ARIN XXX meeting in October 2012 I listened to a debate on a policy proposal concerning the reservation of a pool of IPv4 addresses to address critical infrastructure. The term “critical infrastructure” is intended to cover a variety of applications, including use by public Internet Exchanges and…


Re-counting DNSSEC

This is a followup article to “Counting DNSSEC” that reflects some further examination of the collected data. This time I’d like to describe some additional thoughts about the experiment, and some revised results in our efforts to count just how much DNSSEC is being used out there. And for those…


Counting DNSSEC

At the Nordunet 2012 conference in September, a presentation included the assertion that “more than 80% of domains could use DNSSEC if they so chose.” This is an interesting claim that speaks to a very rapid rise in the deployment of DNSSEC in recent years, and it raises many questions…


Hacking Away at the Internet’s Security

The front page story of the September 13 2011 issue of the International Herald Tribune said it all: “Iranian activists feel the chill as hacker taps into e-mails.” The news story relates how a hacker has “sneaked into the computer systems of a security firm on the outskirts of Amsterdam”…