2026-08-21 17:48:50
#DNS root servers on an observed June 2026 traffic increase:
"[...] a representative from the AS responded on July 3rd. They confirmed that the traffic originated from their networks (i.e., was not spoofed) and was the unintentional result of recent recursive resolver software updates."
https://root-servers.org/media/news/2026-06-29-increase.pdf
Reserved Top Level #DNS Names
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606
Any #PortlandME fedi people involved with #DNS, #BGP, #infosec, or
I just released ptrclassify is a small, dependency-free Python library and CLI that infers likely IP usage from reverse-DNS PTR hostnames.
It is intentionally heuristic and multi-label. PTR naming is operator-controlled and is not authoritative evidence of how an address is actually used. The output therefore includes a confidence score, the text that matched, and the rule IDs that produced each label.
To summarize, the library is trying to guess usage (and a bit location) of an IP address based on its PTR records. It's based on a set of rules which can be updated easily.
#osint #cybersecurity #ptrclassify #opensource #dns
https://github.com/adulau/ptrclassify
module https://pypi.org/project/ptrclassify/