Re: [dns-operations] Does DNSSEC provide any mitigation for SSL bugs, like Apple's?

2014-02-24 Thread Dan York
/dane/ Regards, Dan P.S. Thanks, Paul, for pointing out the CA vs EE cert point. In some quick thoughts about this scenario I hadn't recalled the issue with pinning only the CA. -- Dan York Senior Content Strategist, Internet Society y...@isoc.org <mailto:y...@isoc.org> +1-802-7

[dns-operations] My anniversary post is now up... Re: 30 years of DNS

2013-11-25 Thread Dan York
On 11/25/13 11:18 AM, "Dan York" wrote: >On 11/25/13 5:17 AM, "Ondřej Surý" wrote: > >>Just a short notice - the RFC 882 and 883 has been published in November >>1983, so we are celebrating 30 years of DNS this November. > >Excellent catch! I do agr

Re: [dns-operations] 30 years of DNS

2013-11-25 Thread Dan York
ed. Interesting to try to dig that far back and see that only month info is available. As someone else mentioned, Paul Mockapetris would be one potential source of digging back to the actual dates. Thanks for pointing this out, Dan -- Dan York Senior Content Strategist, Internet Society y.

Re: [dns-operations] It's begun...

2013-11-14 Thread Dan York
Anne-Marie, On 11/14/13 1:22 PM, "Anne-Marie Eklund-Löwinder" wrote: >Am I the only one who is surprised of the need for the tld plumbing? Well, it's another TLD from Donuts, Inc., and last week brought us .LIGHTING and .EQUIPMENT from Donuts (along with 7 others). Just looking at the TLDs de

Re: [dns-operations] It's begun...

2013-11-14 Thread Dan York
tlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings nor the ICANN DNSSEC reports - I suspect we'll see the latter in tomorrow's reports. The list of delegated strings may be updated later today (if the person doing that, for instance, is in the California office). Dan -- Dan York Senior Cont

Re: [dns-operations] It's begun...

2013-10-24 Thread Dan York
+cd option. Hmmm... interesting. Perhaps some work is still needed on the operational front there... Dan -- Dan York Senior Content Strategist, Internet Society y...@isoc.org <mailto:y...@isoc.org> +1-802-735-1624 Jabber: y...@jabber.isoc.org <mailto:y...@jabber.isoc.org&g

Re: [dns-operations] It's begun...

2013-10-23 Thread Dan York
news release (listing the four domains): http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-23oct13-en So yes, it's begun. Dan -- Dan York Senior Content Strategist, Internet Society y...@isoc.org <mailto:y...@isoc.org> +1-802-735-1624 Jabber: y...@jabber.isoc.org <mailto:y...@j

Re: [dns-operations] Should medium-sized companies run their own recursive resolver?

2013-10-15 Thread Dan York
thought it would be useful to create a >"typical" use case and see if X converged in a community such as this. > >It didn't. That's a useful data point for people creating other protocols >who have to listen to commenters who say where resolvers need to be. Thanks

Re: [dns-operations] DNS hijack - AVG, Avira and WhatsApp sites affected - seems to be a registrar compromise

2013-10-10 Thread Dan York
Marco, On 10/10/13 12:07 PM, "Marco Davids (SIDN)" wrote: >On 10/10/13 5:43 PM, Dan York wrote: > >> there's nothing that DNSSEC or anything else could have done here > >Not entirely true. Some form of domain-locking might have helped. For >instance, we of

[dns-operations] DNS hijack - AVG, Avira and WhatsApp sites affected - seems to be a registrar compromise

2013-10-10 Thread Dan York
ng that DNSSEC or anything else could have done here as the attackers are gaining full access to the domain registrants DNS records and can modify them as they wish. Dan -- Dan York Senior Content Strategist, Internet Society y...@isoc.org <mailto:y...@isoc.org> +1-802-735-1624 Jabber: y...@ja

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Attack over UDP fragmentation

2013-09-04 Thread Dan York
d how severe it may be and whether or not it would be prevented by full deployment of DNSSEC. If it can be shown that this is a very real issue that DNSSEC could prevent, there is suddenly another really good argument that can be used to strongly encourage operators and enterprises to deploy DNSSEC

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Attack over UDP fragmentation

2013-09-04 Thread Dan York
attended the SAAG session, listened to the presentation and read through the materials with great interest. I left, though, not really sure I could understand how real of a threat this is in actual deployments. I would certainly welcome PoC code that could help shed light on the severity of the issu

[dns-operations] Registrar compromise leads to DNS attacks against NY Times, Twitter and others

2013-08-28 Thread Dan York
-records-of-twitter-new-york-times-through-registrar-melboune-it/ The CloudFlare and TechCrunch articles both include a statement from Melbourne IT, the registrar for the affected domain names, that indicates there was a compromise at their site. Dan -- Dan York Senior Content Strategist, Internet

Re: [dns-operations] Best Practices

2013-06-14 Thread Dan York
ious groups here: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/about/bcop/ Working with one of those groups might be a way to move a document forward. Or creating a repository of DNS-related BCOPs might be a great role that DNS-OARC could play. Regards, Dan -- Dan York Senior Content Strategist, Internet

Re: [dns-operations] TLSA records on MX

2013-06-10 Thread Dan York
d it to our list? It is great that you are doing this DANE/DNSSEC work for Exim and Postfix. If I can help publicize your work (or your call for people to help) please let me know. I'm here to help in whatever way toward accelerating the deployment of DNSSEC (and thereby DANE). Regards, Dan