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Hurrah! Twelve new open source hooks in Kea 2.7.7! With the release of Kea 2.

In the computer world, we commonly store temporary data in a cache to make programs run smoothly.

Piotrek Zadroga and I attended the DNS Hackathon, hosted by RIPE NCC, DNS-OARC and Netnod in Stockholm on March 14-15.

If you suspect you have found a security defect in BIND 9, Kea DHCP, Stork, or ISC DHCP, or if you wish to inquire about a security issue that you have learned about which has not yet been publicly announced, ISC encourages you to take one or more of the following actions, as appropriate:

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.

If you think you may have found a security vulnerability in any ISC software, please take one or more of the following steps, as appropriate:

We’re back with another look at one of ISC’s staff members: Ben Scott!

ISC’s Senior Software Engineer Marcin Siodelski is attending the upcoming DNS Hackathon in Stockholm, sponsored by Netnod, DNS-OARC, and the RIPE NCC.

The US Executive Order “Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity”, published on January 17, 2025, calls for a number of measures to strengthen cybersecurity in the US.

ISC’s Organizational Health and Operations Financially and organizationally ISC is in good health, with no major concerns.

Here are some of the events ISC staff plan to participate in during the first half of 2025.

At the ICANN 81 meeting in Istanbul on 10 November 2024, I gave a presentation about the DNS Root Server System, in an effort to increase understanding of the Root Server System (RSS) and Root Server Operators (RSOs).

ISC is fortunate to have staff members in so many different countries around the world: our software development benefits from all the different perspectives – and we benefit personally!

It’s been a while since we’ve profiled one of our engineers, so we’re overdue.

ISC launched the Stork management application almost exactly five years ago, in November 2019, as an experimental tool.

On the long-term scale of human history, 25 years is nothing.

Thank you for your interest! ISC has a long history of finding the best people to focus their talents and passions on the mission of supporting the infrastructure of the Internet.

Today, ISC is proud to release BIND 9.20.0, our newest stable branch.

Kea/DHCP news At the end of May, we released Kea 2.

Authors: Jason Goertzen, David Joseph, Peter Thomassen BIND & liboqs: A PQC DNSSEC Field Study The DNS protocol is the internet’s phonebook.

Update posted June 27th, 2024 This was not the fraud we thought it was We have learned that emails we originally identified as abuse were sent by an external contractor engaged by ISC to conduct a focussed and short-term lead generation campaign.

ISC’s software engineering team is thrilled to announce the release of Kea 2.

ISC has deployed numerous F-Root nameserver nodes, using an anycast routing setup.

BIND 9 is Unaffected by the DNSBomb We have been researching and testing a DNS vulnerability report called the DNSBomb (CVE-2024-33655).

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

Internet Systems Consortium Statement of Privacy Effective date: 13 December 2018

Block Malware, Phishing, Ransomware Sites and Botnets Most modern electronic crime and network abuse relies on the Domain Name System.

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

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