February 2011 Archives

RTT Banding Removal From BIND 9

18 Feb 2011
Michael Graff

In response to our customers and colleagues, ISC has chosen to remove the RTT Banding feature from BIND 9, starting with BIND 9.8.0. Other supported versions will have RTT Banding removed in their next releases.

BIND 9.8.0 is scheduled to go out on March 1st, 2011. 9.8.1 will follow around a month later.

But Open Source Software is unsupported. Isn't it?

16 Feb 2011
by Paul Ebersman

 

Open Source is not unsupported

It's a common misconception that open source software means it's unsupported, that if you want to have 7x24 support you have to buy commercial software. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The reality is that open source software is written by professional coders, is fully production quality and support is available. The major difference between commercial software and open source software is this:

An Ending and An Opportunity

04 Feb 2011
Suzanne Woolf

A new milestone in the history and evolution of the Internet has passed: On Thursday, February 3, 2011, it was announced that the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), steward of the Internet's reserves of unassigned IP addresses, has distributed the final blocks of IPv4 addresses to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). The RIRs, based in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa, will now allocate them, according to rules developed in each region, to service providers and enterprises worldwide. And then all of the IPv4 addresses will be in use.