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New idea: a novel produced using DNS TXT records whereby the queried domain names themselves form a short story.

Takers? ;-)

The January 2023 maintenance releases of BIND 9 are available and can be downloaded from the ISC software download page, https://www.isc.org/download

The releases also contain fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:
- CVE-2022-3094
- CVE-2022-3488 (Applicable to BIND Supported Preview Edition only)
- CVE-2022-3736
- CVE-2022-3924

"Sex.com is officially up for sale. Previously sold at $13 million in 2013, the opening price today is a cool $20 million. "

https://www.sex.com/auction/

PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.1 has been released. Upgrade.

https://blog.powerdns.com/2023/01/20/security-advisory-2023-01-for-powerdns-recursor-4-8-0/

If your DNS queries LoOk liKE tHIs, it's not a ransom note, it's a security improvement

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/19/google_dns_queries/

BIND Memory Management Explained

https://www.isc.org/blogs/2023-BIND-memory-management-explained/

dnsmonster implements a passive DNS monitoring framework built on Golang -- a packet sniffer for DNS traffic. It can accept traffic from a pcap file, a live interface or a dnstap socket, and can be used to index and store hundreds of thousands of DNS queries per second as it has shown to be capable of indexing 200k+ DNS queries per second on a commodity computer.

https://morioh.com/p/e2a78acb09c9

Chuck Norris doesn't need dots when using dig(1) to query the A records for the CH and MX ccTLDs.

Emojis in domain names, punycode and performance

https://lemire.me/blog/2023/01/04/emojis-in-domain-names-punycode-and-performance/

"A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously. It might not be correct, but it’s not obviously wrong."

Schneier says "most of the paper is over his head", so I won't even click on the link.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/breaking-rsa-with-a-quantum-computer.html