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Joey Chestnut Beats Kobayashi Again in Hot-Dog Eating Contest
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:20:09 -0000
It’s not the 4th of July without the Coney Island Hot-Dog Eating Contest (that’s how we celebrate in Brooklyn, by stuffing our faces with as many hot dogs we can fit). This year’s winner is defending champion Joey “Jaws” Chestunt, who won in overtime from six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi. Both ate 59 hot [...]
The Problem With Identi.ca Is That It Is Not Twitter
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:57:51 -0000
The launch of Twitter clone Identi.ca earlier this week caused a bit of a blogstorm because it appears to have a solution to Twitter’s all-too-regular downtime. (That problem has reached comical proportions, with the familiar Twitter Fail Whale now appearing on T-shirts and kitschy art). Identi.ca’s answer to Twitter’s scaling issues is by [...]
Follow Animal Migrations On Google Earth
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:50:56 -0000
Google Earth is turning out to be a great resource for scientists to visualize and communicate the phenomena they study. You can see the migration patterns of endangered and other threatened animals, based on data collected by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. (The image above shows the range of both the Northern spotted [...]
Independence Day
Steve Gillmor Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:44:53 -0000
Tomorrow we celebrate July 4th, and a week later our long National Nightmare is over. On the 11th we deposit our 2G iPhones in the FriendFeed donation bins and officially hook ourselves up to the Enterprise iPhone. The ePhone will change how we work and play, and in the process free us from the tyranny [...]
Regator Wants To Be A Blog Reader For The Masses
Jason Kincaid Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:40:00 -0000
Regator, a new blog aggregator that hopes to reduce the blogosphere down to consumable chunks for the average user, has launched today in private beta. The site acts like a combination between Digg and a standard RSS reader, allowing users to vote on the most popular stories drawn from 3,000 blogs that have been [...]
Google, You Can Eat My Cookies Anytime
Jason Kincaid Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:45:41 -0000
Google has just released a lengthy blog post to announce that it has finally put its privacy policy on its homepage. The search giant has been repeatedly questioned over the last few months over its lack of a readily available privacy policy, which until now has been buried in the “About Google” section of [...]

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404 BIND Resources - Offers information about DNS and the BIND Nameserver Software from ISC. Includes links, manuals, mailing lists, RFCs and download locations.

DNS Servers - An overview on how DNS works and tutorials for installing and configuring DNS servers on Linux and Microsoft Servers.
Meta Description: [ Domain Name Resolution Basics and Domain Name Server Basics. ]

.Net API wrapper for Simple DNS Plus Windows nameserver - A free .net wrapper for users of Simple DNS Plus, using the built-in HTTP API of Simple DNS Plus.
Meta Description: [ Free .net API - Windows DNS server - Simple DNS Plus | Neokobe - VSS, DNS, CRM, CMS, SAP ]

Adminschoice - A brief document that describes how to set up a Unix DNS server using BIND.
Meta Description: [ Domain Name Service - dns server setting , configuring and troubleshooting ]

ADNS - ADNS is a free resolver library for C (and C++) programs, released under GNU's General Public License.

BIND 8 for NT - Provides quick and dirty instructions for setting up the BIND DNS server on Windows NT, including sample zone files.

Country Coded Top Level Domains (ccTLD's) - The official list of all country specific TLD's, including .us, .uk, and .tv, plus links to where you can apply for a domain in that country.

DNS and BIND, 4th Edition - Information about the O'Reilly title by Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu. Includes the full text of Chapter 11 which focuses on security: TISG, firewalls, and DNS security extensions.
Meta Description: [ The fourth edition of DNS and BIND covers the new 9.1.0 and 8.2.3 versions of BIND as well as the older 4.9 version. There's also more extensive coverage of NOTIFY, IPv6 forward and reverse mapping, transaction signatures, and the new DNS Security Extensions... ]

DNS and E-mail Checks - Pingability.com is a website that runs checks of your DNS and E-mail setup.
Meta Description: [ Pingability's DNS Check tells you all about your DNS and email setup. It lets you find and fix DNS and mail server problems. ]

DNS Detailer - An interesting Windows program that lets you run DNS queries, and it will show all the details of the response. Similar to the results from a good packet sniffer, but without the learning curve.

DNS Oversimplied: How to Check Your DNS - Step-by-step instructions on how to verify that your DNS is working properly and is error-free, even if your ISP handles your DNS.
Meta Description: [ Step-by-step instructions on how to verify that your DNS is working properly and is error-free. ]

DNS overview - An extensive overview of DNS. Includes Bind [4,8,9] configuration and examples.

DNS Resources Directory (DNSRD) - Offers general information, reference material, software, news, and links.
Meta Description: [ Directory of information on the Domain Name System (DNS). ]

500 DNS World, everything that is useful to the care and feeding of DNS servers - A site dedicated to DNS servers and the people who setup, maintain, and host DNS servers. Including both home and business users, and for internet and intranet sites.
Meta Description: [ DNS helps, hints, tips ]

DNSbox DNS Server - DNSbox is a German managed DNS Server with phone and mail Support. It is independent, fast, and stable.

404 DNSSEC - DNS Security Extensions - Offers information about DNSSEC: Security Extensions for DNS. Includes DNSSEC projects, articles, news, developments, presentations, howto's and RFC's.

DNSSEC Zone Key Tool - A toolkit for secure DNS key management and zone maintenance.

Fusion DNS - Embedded Source Code - Fusion DNS software is a resolver for embedded devices that is comprised of a library of easy-to-use routines that a client application can call to perform the domain name to IP address translation function.

gTLD-MoU - Memorandum of Understanding on Generic Top-Level Domains. Includes details such as why certain Top Level Domains (such as .biz) are chosen.

Howto Become A Totally Small Time DNS Admin - Plain text instructions on setting up administration under Linux.

Incognito Software Inc. - Incognito Software Inc. develops DNS management tools for the enterprise and service provider markets. Offers secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant DNS management software.
Meta Description: [ Incognito Software provides sophisticated DNS, DHCP, TFTP, ToD and IP Management Solutions for Enterprises, Hosting Providers, and Broadband Service Providers. ]

ISC's BIND - The developer's site for the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon at the Internet Software Consortium

Men and Mice - Offers a diagnostic utility for DNS administrators, and QuickDNS Pro, a DNS server for the Mac.
Meta Description: [ DNS solutions & DNS services from Men & Mice: DNS Expert, DNS diagnostics and monitoring for DNS servers and Active Directory; QuickDNS; Men & Mice Suite; multi-platform DNS management solution; DNS training and DNS consulting ]

MyDNS - A free DNS server for Unix that serves records directly from a MySQL database.

NameSurfer - Unix software providing a web based user interface for DNS administration.
Meta Description: [ Nixu Software offers the best value in its industry by creating DNS and IP addressing solutions that set the benchmark for the combination of security, ease of use and low cost of ownership. Distributed as software appliances, Nixu Products auto-install on industry standard x86 servers and virtua... ]

Nominum - Nominum provides DNS and DHCP servers and an advanced IP name and address management system.

Perl DNS Module - A free module for Perl for resolving DNS queries.

Power Domain Name Server - PowerDNS offers an integrated DNS solution for Domain Name Registrys, Registrars, ISPs, Web Hosting companies and corporates. PowerDNS is a non BIND nameserving engine based on OpenSource code and proprietary software.
Meta Description: [ PowerDNS: a modern, advanced and high performance nameserver. Dns management, dns outsourcing, dns support, dns, domain name server, powerdns express, support contracts ]

Putting Locations into the DNS - How to put your latitude and longitude into your DNS configuration, plus some nifty extras, like maps.

Request For Comment 1035 - This RFC describes the details of the domain system and protocol, and assumes that the reader is familiar with the concepts discussed in a companion RFC, Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities [RFC-1034].

Root Server Technical Operations Assn - Official web site of the DNS root servers. Information, including locations, ASNs, and IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, of the 13 root-servers.net systems.

Secondary DNS Exchange - A list of people who are looking to swap secondary DNS servers.
Meta Description: [ A list of people who are looking to swap secondary DNS servers. ]

Secure BIND Template v3.4 - Detailed explanation as to how to deploy a secure BIND configuration.

Securing an Internet Name Server - Paper discussing general name server security, with a focus on BIND. By Allen Householder and Brian King of CERT/CC. [PDF]

Simple DNS Plus - DNS server software for Windows 9x/NT/2000. Free trial version, screenshots, client testimonials, FAQ, tutorials.

Tinydns and Dnscache - A replacement for BIND - Tinydns does the authoritative nameserving, Dnscache does the recursive lookups.

XBill DNSJava - A DNS resolver written in java.