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  • Reporting Software Bugs
    on November 11, 2026 at 12:00 am

    If you suspect you have found a vulnerability in BIND 9, Kea DHCP, Stork, or ISC DHCP, ISC encourages you to take one or more of the following actions, as appropriate:

  • Reporting Software Bugs
    on November 11, 2026 at 12:00 am

    If you suspect you have found a vulnerability in BIND 9, Kea DHCP, Stork, or ISC DHCP, ISC encourages you to take one or more of the following actions, as appropriate:

  • Early Vulnerability Notification (EVN)
    on November 5, 2026 at 12:00 am

    One software vulnerability can enable a successful denial-of-service attack, disabling critical network services.

  • Presentations and Webinars
    on October 28, 2026 at 12:00 am

    Most video recordings are also available on our YouTube channel. To be notified of upcoming webinars, follow ISC on Mastodon, LinkedIn, Facebook, or Bluesky, or subscribe to the training-info mailing list.

  • Mark us “Safe” from the PHP Vulnerability
    on October 28, 2026 at 12:00 am

    By now anyone who follows Internet security, and plenty of people who don’t, have read about the two critical PHP2Shell vulnerabilities published and patched on October 21st.

  • Stork 2.6: Open Source DHCP Management Tool
    on October 15, 2026 at 12:00 am

    Stork 2.6 is a new stable version, suitable for production use.

  • Commercial Products for Managing ISC Open Source
    on October 15, 2026 at 12:00 am

    This list includes products that provide a management interface for, or integration with, ISC open source software.

  • ISC Code of Conduct
    on October 1, 2026 at 12:00 am

    This Reporting Guide relates to the Code of Conduct we have adopted for public fora ISC controls, where the user and developer communities discuss our open source projects.

  • The History of BIND
    on September 30, 2026 at 12:00 am

    BIND Version 4: UC Berkeley and DEC The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) package was originally written in the early 1980s at the University of California at Berkeley as a graduate-student project, under a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration (DARPA).

  • Other Software
    on September 30, 2026 at 12:00 am

    Software from ISC ISC has developed several open source tools that our users and customers may find helpful.

  • BIND Authoritative Performance on Multi-core Systems
    on September 3, 2026 at 12:00 am

    A 2025/26 grant from the Nominet DNS Fund enabled ISC to purchase new computers for our ten-year-old Perflab performance test bed.

  • Migrating to Kea from ISC DHCP
    on August 27, 2026 at 12:00 am

    Kea Migration Assistant (KeaMA) tool The Kea Migration Assistant is a tool that will partially translate a working configuration for ISC DHCP to an equivalent configuration for Kea.

  • IETF Standards Written by ISC Contributors
    on August 10, 2026 at 12:00 am

    ISC has a long history of contributing to, and implementing, open community standards.

  • All versions of Kea 2.6 are now EOL
    on July 29, 2026 at 12:00 am

    Kea 2.6 reached the end of maintenance with the release of Kea 3.

  • US Government Users
    on July 9, 2026 at 12:00 am

    ISC is a Small Business open source software provider; we author and maintain BIND 9, ISC DHCP, and Kea DHCP, essential software that handles DNS and DHCP functionality across the Internet.

  • DNS Tools
    on July 2, 2026 at 12:00 am

    These are a few of the DNS-related tools, websites, and books we have heard of.

  • Meet an ISC Staff Member – Jason Lasky!
    on June 30, 2026 at 12:00 am

    In the continuing series of profiles of some of our staff members, let’s get to know Jason Lasky, our Senior Account Manager!

  • Announcing Kea 3.2, a new stable version
    on June 24, 2026 at 12:00 am

    ISC is excited to announce the release of Kea 3.2.0, a new stable version!

  • OpenPGP Key
    on June 16, 2026 at 12:00 am

    ISC has an OpenPGP key. OpenPGP is a public key system, which means that if you have our public key and we sign a mail message (or a software distribution) using our private key, you can have a reasonable confidence level that the message or distribution really did come from us.

  • June 2026 release marks the End of Life for BIND 9.18
    on June 10, 2026 at 12:00 am

    Per our longstanding release plan for BIND 9, after four and a half years, BIND 9.

  • Stork 2.5: Open Source DHCP Management Tool
    on June 3, 2026 at 12:00 am

    Stork 2.5 is a new development version, provided for testing and evaluation.

  • DHCP Tools
    on June 2, 2026 at 12:00 am

    These are a few of the DHCP-related tools, websites, and books we have heard of.

  • Kea & IPv6 Tools
    on June 2, 2026 at 12:00 am

    These are a few of the Kea- and IPv6-related tools, websites, and books we have heard of.

  • RIPE 92 – How many DNS queries?- Ondřej Surý
    on June 1, 2026 at 12:00 am

    Ondřej Surý gave a talk at the RIPE 92 conference in Edinburgh in May, on “How many DNS queries does it take to resolve one name?

  • RIPE 92 – Brace for Upgrades- Petr Špaček
    on June 1, 2026 at 12:00 am

    Petr Špaček gave a talk at the RIPE 92 conference in Edinburgh in May, on the impact of Large Language Models on security bug reporting to open source projects.

  • Prepare for more frequent BIND security updates
    on May 12, 2026 at 12:00 am

    Plan for more frequent BIND security updates, at least for the remainder of 2026.

  • How to report a security vulnerability, 101
    on April 16, 2026 at 12:00 am

    At ISC, we sincerely value the contributions of our users, and security researchers, who analyze and probe our software for vulnerabilities.

  • Meet an ISC Staff Member – T. Marc Jones!
    on April 2, 2026 at 12:00 am

    In the past, we’ve profiled some of ISC’s software and support engineers, and even our product manager.

  • ISC’s Board of Directors
    on March 17, 2026 at 12:00 am

    Rick Adams, Chair Richard L. Adams, Jr. is the founder of UUNET Technologies, the first commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP) and one of the largest Internet traffic carriers in the world in the 1990s.

  • Generalized DNS Notifications in BIND 9
    on March 11, 2026 at 12:00 am

    A new configuration option, notify-cfg CDS, was added to BIND 9 in version 9.

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