Blog entries for "rpz"

ISC BIND 9.8.1b3 provides startup-performance improvements


ISC BIND 9.8.1b3 is now available. This release includes startup-performance improvements described in A Major Improvement in BIND 9 Startup Performance (see http://www.isc.org/files/imce/startup-performance.pdf).

BIND 9.8.1b3 is the third beta release of BIND 9.8.
 

Taking Back the DNS

Most new domain names are malicious.

I am stunned by the simplicity and truth of that observation. Every day lots of new names are added to the global DNS, and most of them belong to scammers, spammers, e-criminals, and speculators. The DNS industry has a lot of highly capable and competitive registrars and registries who have made it possible to reserve or create a new name in just seconds, and to create millions of them per day. Domains are cheap, domains are plentiful, and as a result most of them are dreck or worse.