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DNS creator: It's time to add security
News Following the publication of a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) by security researcher Dan Kaminsky, DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris told ZDNet.co.uk on Thursday that internet service providers (ISPs) should "take action" and "add...
[August 12, 2008, 11:57]
IPv6 Cookbook for Routing, DNS, Intra-Domain Multicast, Inter-Domain Multicast, Security
White Papers In many ways the issues IPv6 routing, IPv6 DNS, IPv6 multicast and security are very similar to the corresponding tasks in IPv4. This paper rather focuses on the differences between IPv6 and IPv4 in these areas and therefore builds on the IPv4...
[March 14, 2005, 2:00]
Domain Name Service (DNS)
White Papers This design evolved, and RFCs 1034 and 1035 were issued to describe the Domain Name System (DNS) service used in today's Internet. This paper describes Microsoft Windows 2000's implementation of the DNS protocol.
[July 31, 2009, 1:26]
DNS Flusher
Downloads DNS Flusher can be used to flush and reset the contents of the DNS client resolver cache. Simply launch DNS Flusher and it will automatically flush the DNS cache.
[March 14, 2008, 7:00]
DNS recursion leads to nastier DoS attacks
News But in this latest spate of DDoS attacks, bots are sending queries to DNS servers with the return address pointed at the targeted victim. As a result, the DNS server, rather than the bot, makes the direct attack on the victim.
[March 17, 2006, 9:05]
DNS servers 'vulnerable to attack'
News Many DNS servers are wrongly configured or running out-of-date software, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to a survey published on Monday. The Measurement Factory surveyed 1.3 million DNS servers, and found that more than...
[October 25, 2005, 17:55]
DNS error takes down internet in Sweden
News A period was dropped at the end of DNS (domain name system) records for the Swedish top-level domain, breaking the entire DNS lookup chain. For some sites the problems will take longer to resolve because of the fact that DNS lookups are cached...
[October 14, 2009, 9:05]
DNS Enabler
Downloads DNS Enabler allows Mac users to set up a fully-functional Domain Name Server on a plain Mac OS X machine with just one click. DNS Enabler provides the interface to allow users to specify name-to-address mappings for machines on the Internet, as...
[October 1, 2009, 15:45]
DNS-O-Matic Updater
Downloads DNS-O-Matic Updater is a small menu bar application that helps you keep your Dynamic IP information up to date on the DNS-O-Matic website.
[August 13, 2009, 14:30]
DNS Lookup Plus
Downloads DNS Lookup Plus is a utility application that allows users to query a specified DNS server or their carrier's DNS servers for common DNS records. It features specify DNS server by name or IP, use device's current DNS servers, device makes...
[September 3, 2009, 8:19]
DNS Helper
Downloads Mac OS X Server and Mac OS X rely heavily on working DNS to function. Mac OS X Server in particular must having working DNS for many services to function reliably. DNS Helper takes the work out of creating the files that BIND needs to run.
[November 5, 2003, 7:00]
DNS Cache Poisoning: Definition and Prevention
White Papers The Internet would grind to a halt - would not be possible - without a Domain Name System (DNS). As this paper shows, the proper operation of DNS is fundamental to the maintenance and distribution of the addresses for the vast number of nodes...
[May 4, 2006, 10:17]
Integrating DNS, DHCP, and WINS
White Papers The leading IP management vendors have made significant strides in integrating DNS and DHCP in a proprietary manner; however, much work remains to complete the necessary Internet standards, and beyond that, to achieve standards-based vendor...
[February 9, 2007, 2:26]
Solve Windows 2000 DNS server problems
Talkback "Cannot find server or DNS Error I am having problems viewing my web site.when I type my web address in the address bar I am getting the following message " Cannot find server or DNS Error Internet Explorer ".
[August 15, 2003, 0:07]
ZoneAlarm updated after Microsoft DNS patch
News Since Tuesday, ZoneAlarm customers have complained that access to the internet was denied after installing MS08-037, a patch designed by Microsoft to fix a vulnerability in both the client and server Domain Name System (DNS) packages within Windows.
[July 11, 2008, 8:50]
Security firm RSA falls foul to DNS hack
News Computer security firm RSA has had one of its Web sites effectively defaced by computer criminals apparently keen to make a point about the insecurity of DNS (Domain Name System) authentication. According to security and encryption expert Brian...
[February 14, 2000, 16:19]
Forbes.com Chooses NeuStar's Ultra Internal DNS Service
White Papers Forbes.com, a division of Forbes, Inc.and the #1 business site on the Web for executives, has selected its Ultra Internal Domain Name Systems (DNS) service, with an integrated Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), to improve the...
[April 16, 2009, 1:22]
Half of DNS servers vulnerable to attack
News The security of DNS continues to be an issue for network administrators, despite the availability of more secure DNS servers such as BIND 9, according to a survey released on Monday by network appliance company, Infoblox.
[November 20, 2007, 12:37]
First attacks on DNS flaws reported
News The existence of the Domain Name System (DNS) flaw, which could be used to redirect browsers to malicious sites, was revealed at the start of July by security researcher Dan Kaminsky. On Friday, a user named James Kosin posted an excerpt from a...
[July 28, 2008, 13:37]
VeriSign spreads the DNS risk
News VeriSign plans to significantly increase the number of DNS servers it operates, a move it says will make a key part of the Internet's infrastructure more resilient to attack. Over the next year, VeriSign aims to place additional replicas of one of...
[May 20, 2005, 16:05]
