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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.

Recommendations for transport-protocol port randomisation published as RFC and BCP

19-Jan-11

The IETF has published RFC 6056, “Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization”, which is also BCP 156.