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Here's a photo of ISC's Petr Špaček giving his "Brace for Upgrades - Plural" talk at #RIPE92 last week, as well as a slide from his presentation.
The bottom line: streamline your deployment processes, because you're going to need to update often to keep up with the onslaught of AI-discovered vulnerabilities.
(And if you're a researcher, please don't just submit slop reports! ISC and the other open

2 views Here's a photo of ISC's Petr Špaček giving his "Brace for Upgrades - Plural" talk at #RIPE92 last week, as well as a slide from his presentation. The bottom line: streamline your deployment processes, because you're going to need to update often to keep up with the onslaught of AI-discovered vulnerabilities. (And if you're a researcher, please don't just submit slop reports! ISC and the other open

2 views Enjoy a couple of pictures of Ondřej Surý speaking at #RIPE92 ! Were you there for his talk? What did you think?

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Nov 2022

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🔥 Top post: We continue to get LLM reports of high severity security vulnera · 27 likes + reposts

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🔥 Top post We continue to get LLM reports of high severity security vulnerabilities in BIND 9 that turn out to be ... just the way the DNS works. The *only possible conclusion* is, DNS is DANGEROUS. Right? ★ 27

DNS Operations working group meeting yesterday at IETF recording is available. Warning - it is 2 hours long. Honestly?I haven't watched the whole thing, it is rly long, but I skipped around, looking for controversy, and it seems like the … ★ 5 RE: https://hachyderm.io/@tonhe/116958179388960554 Yup. Dual-stack is a trap. ★ 2 RE: https://mastodon.social/@Nominet/116809942090059852 Nominet helped to fund a refresh of our 9-year-old performance test bed for BIND 9. We found their funding program to be easy to apply for, with quick response (so no more waiting mon… ★ 2 ISC is excited to announce the release of Kea 3.2.0! This is a major release and includes a long list of bug fixes, feature improvements, and build changes. For an overview of the main updates available, please read our blog post at https:… ★ 6 Our June 2026 maintenance releases of BIND 9 are posted. Packages provided by ISC will be updated later today. - Stable: - 9.18.50 - https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.18.50/ - 9.20.24 - https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/… ★ 3 Tomorrow's BIND release will be the LAST RELEASE for BIND 9.18. It is time to upgrade to a newer version. Also, we will be updating our old stable "bind-esv" package repos to serve BIND 9.20 instead of BIND 9.18 with our July release. http… ★ 5 Fewer organizations host their own DNS these days, but for those of you still doing it, you can feel some smug satisfaction that at least you are not vulnerable to the ‘underminr’ tactic. ADAMNetworks has published a web site on their dis… ★ 3 ISC is pleased to announce the release of Stork 2.5.0, the first release of the new development branch of our DHCP and DNS graphical management system. There are many new features and also some bug fixes. Development versions are not inten… ★ 7 Today I learned that someone has recently built a Webmin module for Kea - lots of screen shots in the pull request. - [ ] https://github.com/webmin/webmin/pull/2736 ★ 2

Here's a photo of ISC's Petr Špaček giving his "Brace for Upgrades - Plural" talk at #RIPE92 last week, as well as a slide from his presentation. The bottom line: streamline your deployment processes, because you're going to need to update… ★ 2

Enjoy a couple of pictures of Ondřej Surý speaking at #RIPE92 ! Were you there for his talk? What did you think? ★ 2

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Established account (3+ years old).

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67%

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ISC.org maintains and publishes the BIND 9 DNS software, the Kea DHCP server, and the Stork graphical management interface. ISC also operates the F-Root system for the benefit of the Internet.

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