ISC Press & Articles and Mentions

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 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.

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.

Perspectives on a DNS-CERT

16 Mar 2010

ISC President Paul Vixie spoke at the ICANN meeting in Nairobi about the need for a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) for the global Domain Name System (DNS).

CeBIT 2010: BIND 10 is coming

04 Mar 2010

At this year's CeBIT IT trade show in Hannover, The H spoke with BIND 10 Programme Manager Shane Kerr about the next version of BIND, the most widely used Domain Name System (DNS) server on the Internet. Like BIND 9, BIND 10 is a complete re-design and re-write of the previous version. Development on the BIND 10 project officially began on the 1st of April, 2009.

ISC's Response to Concerns Expressed Around Misconfigured Trust Anchors and Aggressive Validator Behavior

11 Feb 2010

In response to concerns expressed to ISC both directly and within the article "Roll over and Die " published earlier this week, we at ISC would like to share with the community our plans to mitigate this issue.

AEP Networks opens new office in California

02 Nov 2009

SOMERSET, NJ and SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- AEP Networks, a leader in secure communications and networking, today announced the opening of its newest office location in California. Currently, the company is headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, and has additional offices in Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Ascot and Hemel Hempstead, U.K. Located in Santa Clara, the new Bay Area location will provide a West coast presence due to the success and growth the company has achieved throughout the western half of the United States.

ISC and NaMeX offer DNS training in Europe

23 Sep 2009

Redwood City, CA - Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) and NaMeX today announced a partnership establishing NaMeX’s Rome location as the primary European site for ISC’s BIND and DHCP training courses. The first series of classes begins October 12th.