August 2011 Archives

ISC BIND 9.9.0a1 -- feature preview

01 Sep 2011
by Evan Hunt

Yesterday afternoon, ISC published the first alpha release of BIND 9.9.0. This is an early technology preview, showing off some of the work we've been doing in BIND 9.

There will be more new features added in later alpha releases, but here's what's ready to debut now...

UKNOF is 20...what next ?

18 Aug 2011
Keith Mitchell

The 20th meeting of the UK Network Operators' Forum will take place on Tuesday 6th September, hosted by Hewlett Packard at HP Labs in Bristol, and also sponsored by Arbor Networks.

DS-Lite architecture: overview and automatic configuration

09 Aug 2011
Tomasz Mrugalski

Dual Stack Lite is an architecture that allows IPv4 services to be provided in an IPv6 network, despite a limited amount of available IPv4 addresses. Work on DS-Lite was conducted within the Softwires working group in the IETF, and began in late 2008. After many revisions it was recently published as RFC6333, with its companion RFC6334 dedicated to automated configuration.