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New RFC on DNSBL operational practices

19-Jan-12

The Internet Research Task Force has published informational RFC 6471 on DNSBL operational practices. The acronym DNSBL stands for ‘DNS-based list’, which is more apt than ‘DNS blacklist’ as the DNSBL format can also be used to publish whitelists.

DNS anti-forgery methods published as RFC

29-Jan-09

Bert Hubert (of Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV.) and Remco van Mook (of Equinix) today published RFC 5452, “Measures for Making DNS More Resilient against Forged Answers”.