ISC Press & Articles and Mentions

Infoblox and Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) Team to Help Optimize Development of Critical Open Source Internet Infrastructure Software

23 Aug 2011

When the Internet Nearly Fractured, and How it Could Happen Again

05 May 2011

The Atlantic, Feb 24, 2011 (Paul Vixie is quoted in this article)
When the entire country of Egypt was forced offline by its government last month, it served as a global wake-up call that the Internet is a more fragile medium than we imagine it to be. What happened in Egypt was particularly striking, but other, subtler tests of the Internet's resilience abound. Read the entire article

On Mandated Content Blocking in the Domain Name System

18 Mar 2011

Reprinted from CircleID -- COICA (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act) is a legislative bill introduced in the United States Senate during 2010 that has been the topic of considerable debate. After my name was mentioned during some testimony before a Senate committee last year I dug into the details and I am alarmed.

ISC is proud to be a sponsor of ICANN40 in San Francisco

25 Feb 2011

Several of ISC's staff will be at the Westin St. Francis on Union Square, March 13-18. Come talk with us!

ISC and Men & Mice raise the standard for DNS training

09 Feb 2011

Redwood City, California – 9 February 2011. Today Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) and Men & Mice announced a joint training program to offer and develop courses on Internet protocols at the cutting edge of Internet operations technology. Individually both firms provide highly rated training for core Internet technologies such as DNS, DHCP, IPv6 and more. By combining their course offerings, locations, and teaching staff, the companies will each expand their curricula and their geographic reach.

Slaying the Worm - Challenge of a cyber-attack is our true Sputnik

07 Feb 2011

February 4th, 2011 The Daily.com by Trevor Butterworth
Imagine knowing that the U.S. was filled with a network of sleeper cells--and I mean really knowing and not merely hypothesizing. Read the entire articleabout the Conficker Working Groupof which ISC is a member.

ISC salutes new era of IPv6 in growth of the Internet

04 Feb 2011

Redwood City, CA – February 4, 2011 – ISC salutes new era of IPv6 in
growth of the Internet

Today’s announcement by IANA and the NRO regarding the exhaustion of the IPv4 address pool at the IANA central repository is a landmark event in the history of the Internet. It highlights the importance to the Industry of using the IPv6 protocol in addition to the current IPv4 to ensure continued growth and development.

El guardián de los dominios (The Guardian of the Domains)

02 Feb 2011

La seguridad del sistema de nombres de dominios (DNS, en sus siglas en inglés) está en las manos de João Damas. Y en las de 13 personas más. Son los encargados de mantener protegida la libreta de direcciones de Internet. Siete están en la costa este y siete, en la costa oeste de Estados Unidos.

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/Pantallas/guardian/dominios/elpepurtv/20110202elpepirtv_1/Tes

Top 10 free open source tools for network admins

02 Feb 2011

From troubleshooting DNS queries and misbehaving network apps to keeping your configurations and passwords organized, these tools have you covered

By High Mobley | InfoWorld

Routing issues, slow network applications, DNS resolution problems -- a network administrator has to deal with a host of network nuisances on a daily basis.

Years-old Conficker Worm Still A Threat

27 Jan 2011

By Jesse Emspak | January 27, 2011 2:12 PM EST

A computer worm that first appeared more than two years ago is still a threat, even though security experts were successful in mitigating possible damage.