In this episode, Matt and Cricket are joined by Kim Davies of ICANN and PTI (you’ll have to tune in to find out what that stands for). Kim edifies us on key ceremonies and the Herculean efforts required to keep a key ceremony secure and transparent during what Matt referred to as a “global pandemic,” immediately regretting his use of the redundant phrase. Later, Cricket is embarrassed to learn that Matt has already read both of the new books he’s reading (John Scalzi’s “The Last Emperox” and Martha Wells’s latest in the Murderbot series, “Network Effect“), and Kim laments that the end of business travel leaves him with no time to watch anything. Oh, and the guys (or Matt, really) answer a really good question from Swapneel Patnekar about an ICANN paper on the effects of COVID-19 on the root name servers.
If you’ve already listened to the episode and are interested in the resources Kim referred to, here are the links:
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Posted by Mr. DNS at 6:04 pm on May 14th, 2020.
Categories: DNSSEC, Episodes, Root name servers.
Well, we said we’d try to keep to a monthly schedule, and we arguably just made it! This episode, number 44, features a special guest: Andrew Sullivan, Matt’s colleague at Dyn and Chair of the Internet Architecture Board. Now, if we’d planned ahead and let you know Andrew was going to be on the show, we could have let you know so that you could have submitted lots of thoughtful questions for him to answer, but by now you know not to expect that kind of forethought from us. Instead, we asked him about stuff we’re interested in, including the IANA transition and ARCING, an IETF effort to identify alternative resolution contexts. We also answer a question from Sheridan West about some suspicious-looking log messages from his name server and one from Jeff Helman about the right DNS configuration for handling multiple back-end web servers.
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Posted by Mr. DNS at 12:18 am on February 1st, 2016.
Categories: Episodes, Root name servers, Uncategorized.
In this, our holiday episode, we’re joined by returning special guest, Duane Wessels, who discusses a recent event involving the root name servers and a lot of obviously spoofed traffic, as well as his ongoing work in the IETF around DNS privacy. We reach into the mail bag and find a question from our friend, Rob Fleischman, musing about possible additional metadata that recursive servers could send to authoritative servers. As it happens, Duane’s also working on a DNS protocol extension directly related to Rob’s question, which he tells us about. Finally, we end with a brief and spoiler-free discussion about The Force Awakens.
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Posted by Matt Larson at 4:50 pm on December 28th, 2015.
Categories: EDNS0, General, Resolvers, Root name servers.
In this episode, long-time (and likely now sole) listener Yiorgos Adamopoulos asks about the the process of signing the root zone, which Mr. DNS has some experience with. Matt also recaps some of the goings-on at the latest DNS-OARC meeting in Amsterdam, omitting that which must stay in Amsterdam, but revealing some lapses from his DNSSEC RFC-editing days.
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Posted by Mr. DNS at 11:35 pm on May 31st, 2015.
Categories: DNSSEC, Episodes, Root name servers.
In this (much delayed) episode, Matt and Cricket discuss the folly of trying to hew to a podcast-publishing schedule, and answer (or avoid) questions from Sevan Janiyan and Yiorgos Adamopoulos on what operating systems and software the root name servers run; from Kent Shuey on why a device that implements only part of the DNS specs seems to work okay on his network; and from Todd Larsen (apparently of Danish descent) on where he can go to meet like-minded souls discussing current issues with DNS and DNSSEC (God help him) and whether DANE’s TLSA record can coexist with a CNAME record.
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Posted by Mr. DNS at 12:20 am on June 9th, 2012.
Categories: DNSSEC, Episodes, Root name servers.
