ISC Press & Articles and Mentions

New F-root node in Cambodia, July 2010

29 Jul 2010

ISC now has a F-root node live in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Many thanks to MekongNet and APNIC for making it happen!

BIND 10 Authoritative Server Released Seeking Testers to Provide Hands-On Feedback

20 Jul 2010

Redwood City, CA – July 20, 2010. Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announces the first developmental release of BIND 10. This exciting next generation of BIND, the most widely deployed DNS server software on the Internet, is not intended to replace BIND 9 – yet. This current release of BIND 10 marks the achievement of the first year milestone for the project, an authoritative-only DNS server. As part of its collaborative mission, ISC encourages all DNS administrators and developers to download and thoroughly test BIND 10.

ISC Praises Momentous Step Forward in Securing the Domain Name System

15 Jul 2010

Redwood City, CA – July 15, 2010. ISC joined other key participants of the internet technical community in celebrating the achievement of a significant milestone for the Domain Name System today as the root zone was digitally signed for the first time. This marked the deployment of the DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) at the top level of the DNS hierarchy and ushers the way forward for further roll-out of DNSSEC in the top level domains and DNS Service Providers.

In Defense of BIND: Open Source DNS Software Yields a Better Breed of Secure Product

25 May 2010

Ram Mohan, Exec. V.P. and CTO of Afilias, wrote an article for Security Week about ISC's flagship DNS product BIND9 and open source software.

MAAWG Provides Free Messaging Security Training: Releases DKIM Implementation Tutorial By Leading Experts

21 May 2010
San Francisco, May 21, 2010 – As an industry service, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), the largest global anti-spam industry organization, has released its first online training video and is opening the technical training sessions at its next meeting to non-members for the first time, both at no cost. The new four-part tutorial by leading experts on DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is now available at the MAAWG website, and the live training courses on DNS security, complaint feedback loops, and DKIM at the MAAWG 19th Gen

LACNIC Announces Agreement for the Installation of Root Server F Copy in HAITI

19 May 2010

Curaçao, May 2010
Continuing with the effort for the development and the stability of the Internet in Latin America and the Caribbean, LACNIC jointly with AHTIC, signed today an agreement which will allow the installation in Haiti of an anycast copy in the Caribbean of a F Root Server.

This important event took place during LACNIC's annual meeting, LACNIC XIII, which is being held at this moment at Curaçao, where Raul Echeberria, LACNIC's Executive Director and Paul Vixie, President of ISC, and Reynold Guerrier in representation of AHTIC signed the agreement.

ISC Announces BIND 9.7 Release “DNSSEC for Humans”

23 Apr 2010

Redwood City, CA – April 23, 2010. Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announces the much anticipated release of BIND 9.7, designed to make DNSSEC easier to implement and use.

DNSSEC extends standard DNS to prove data came from an official source and has not been modified. DNSSEC is not a secure tunnel; instead, it adds resource records and message header bits which can be used to verify that the requested data matches the original data, and has not been altered in transit.

Open Source DNS Enters Next Gen with BIND 10 Y1

23 Mar 2010

By Sean Michael Kerner

From the 'Just Call It An Alpha' files:

The first public release of the BIND 10 open source DNS server is now out. But don't rush to update your servers just yet -- it's still years away from being ready for production use.

Comcast, ISC offer IPv6 transition tool

18 Mar 2010

Open source software allows for gradual migration to next-gen Internet services

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World
March 18, 2010 11:43 AM ET 

Comcast and Internet Systems Consortium announced on Thursday the availability of open source software that will help carriers and enterprises migrate to IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

Comcast Labs and ISC release open source software to facilitate IPv6 transition

18 Mar 2010

AFTR software officially made public to the Internet community

Philadelphia, PA and Redwood City, CA – March 18, 2010. Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK) and Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announced today the release of open source software that will help facilitate the industry’s transition to IPv6, the global numbering system essential to the continued growth of the Internet.