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from my link log —
Discovering the discovery of designated resolvers (DNS DDR).
https://labs.ripe.net/author/yevheniya-nosyk/discovering-the-discovery-of-designated-resolvers/
saved 2025-11-09

Discovering the Discovery of Designated Resolvers
DNS encryption is gaining momentum with proposed standards such as DoT, DoH, and DoQ protecting DNS exchanges from external observers. But these standards introduce non-trivial changes to the original specification. Here we look at the Discovery of Designated Resolvers (DDR) - a mechanism that all…

Cloudflare-Rekordstrafe: Italiens harter Anti-Piraterie-Kurs trifft DNS-Resolver
Wegen verweigerter Netzsperren verhängt der italienische Regulierer Agcom ein Bußgeld in zweistelliger Millionenhöhe gegen den Infrastrukturriesen Cloudflare.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Rachelburch/115872668939327686
These photos are fabulous. Moss and fog, such atmosphere!

👀Machado to meet with Trump to give him her Nobel Peace Prize (Rachael Bade/The Inner Circle, with Rachael Bade)
https://rachaelbade.substack.com/p/machado-to-meet-with-trump-to-give
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p57#a260109p57

Weekend Reads
* EDNS client subnet in practice
https://farrokhi.net/posts/2025/10/edns-client-subnet-in-practice-evaluating-public-resolver-behaviors/
* BGP-based DDoS scrubbing services survey

Barnard's mysterious star near Venus - a strange interloper noted during a satellite search: #Barnard misjudged) -> Mistério de 130 Anos Resolvido - A Verdade Sobre a Estrela Fantasma de Barnard: https://spacetoday.com.br/misterio-de-130-anos-resolvido-a-verdade-sobre-a-estrela-fantasma-de-barnard/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Elvis Costello:
🎵 Welcome To The Working Week
#NowPlaying #ElvisCostello
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/welcome-to-the-working-week
https://open.spotify.com/track/39rkLB2TEENIvhwAlRC5ae

If civilization—as we know it—should happen to survive there will definitely be dramatizations made of the shit show for the entertainment of the survivors. Let’s imagine it’s all resolved in the next 10-15 years, and imagine further that what emerges is acceptable to a majority of fediversians. Who among the currently known performers would you pick to play the parts of the actual political participants today?

It's good to see an academic journal publishing serious scholarship: "many controversies around this dramatic episode cannot be resolved until a more objective and quantitative analysis is carried out."
Remember kids, numbers are transparent and self-evident in a way that words can never be. Thanks be to economics.

I don't normally have a lot of sympathy for Windows users, but I'm not a monster. Being stuck with nslookup is a tragedy.
"Oh BIND, oh BIND, why have you forsaken Windows? I miss my dig. Yes, I do. I guess WSL2 will have to do."
https://techcom…

Resolve-DnsName vs. nslookup in Windows | Microsoft Community Hub
Oh boy, here we go again. The last time I talked about a networking tool, the infamous iPerf3 article, I kicked up a hornet’s nest online. This one should...