Archive April 9, 2018

Wireshark 2.4.6 on CentOS 7 available via repository

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag CentOS, coding, How To?, lua, Maintenance release, monitoring, package, repository, tools, updated, Wireshark, yum

Note: 11 January 2018. We have updated the repository with Wireshark 2.6.6 This is the last version of 2.4 in the repository. This is a maintenance release of Wireshark 2.4. The…

West African Internet Outage

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag ace, Africa, Benin, broken, Cable, Cameroon, cieba, cote d'ivore, DNS, dyn, equitorial guinea, Europe, gambia, guinea, guinea-bissau, Internet, liberia, mauritania, Oracle Corporation, research, resilience, sat-3, satellite, senegal, sierra leone, subsea, wasc

Oracle's Dyn service have a research lab, who analyse information from the Internet. In the blog entry below, they look at the recent loss of connectivity on the ACE (Africa…

Cloudflare adds Secure DNS service on 1.1.1.1

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag APNIC, Cisco Systems, Cloudflare, DNS, dyn, Google, Internet, IPv4, IPv6, opendns, Oracle Corporation, range, research, security, space

Cloudflare has expanded the range of secure DNS services available. As well as Cisco's OpenDNS, Google's DNS service, Oracle's Dyn, and the recent Quad 9 service, Cloudflare now adds 1.1.1.1…

RFC8369: Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-bit Unicode

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag April 1st RFC, IPv4, IPv6, space, standard, versa

In a forward-looking RFC that presupposes an expansion of the Unicode address space to 128-bits, it is proposed that IPv6 addresses may instead of the standard notations proposed in RFC8600,…

RFC8367: Wrongful Termination of IP Packets

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag April 1st RFC, IETF, Internet, packets, policy

In a continuation of the serious consideration our standards bodies place on keeping the Internet relevant to society, today the IETF has issued RFC8267. IP packets are often terminated by…