Blog entries for "training"

ISC in Africa

02 Jun 2012
McTim

ISC has always been supportive of Internet infrastructure development in Africa. In addition to being the first root-server operator to offer anycast instances in Africa, we have long provided Secondary Name Services (SNS) to a number of African ccTLDs as part of our public benefit mission. We have also sent our staff to AfNOG meetings to help in training on our FOSS (BIND and DHCP).

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.

Implementing IPv6 is no longer optional

04 Jan 2011
Sue Graves

The exhaustion of IPv4 space from IANA is coming as soon as February (yes, next month!) and the reserve held by the RIRs will be running dry shortly thereafter. The ability to provide (and use) IPv6 infrastructure is no longer optional; it is a requirement.

DNSSEC Readiness

10 May 2010
Michael Graff

DNSSEC is coming. Is your organization ready?

The DNS community is buzzing with activity around the implementation of the DNS Security Extension, DNSSEC. In simple terms, DNSSEC provides a "chain of trust" within the DNS hierarchy and the authentication of DNS responses. Once deployed across the DNS, DNSSEC will render the infamous man-in-the-middle attack a thing of the past.