Archive for October, 2003

Extra! Extra! Samuel has born!

Tuesday, October 28th, 2003

Let me leave the habitual topics of this site to announce that my nephew has born today! A 3,7 kilograms little boy, healthy as an oak. My beloved little boy Samuel.

Congratulations to my brother and family !!

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New release of Mac OS X

Sunday, October 26th, 2003

Apple announces the availability of the Mac OS X 10.3, a new release of its BSD based Unix, known as Panther.

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Setting up a caching DNS resolver with djbdns

Friday, October 10th, 2003

As you know, a DNS server translates the domain names (.i.e. www.karkomaonline.com) into numerical values that computers recognize and also translates numerical values into domain names. The server stores previous queries so that later requests can be handled more quickly.

A DNS caching resolver performs the function of caching answers to previous queries so that there is no need to repeatedly query for the same information.

This tip will show you how to set up a caching DNS using the djbdns software package.

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ICANN to send an ultimatum to VeriSign

Saturday, October 4th, 2003

As noticed several days ago, on 15 September 2003, VeriSign unilaterally decided to make changes to the .com and .net Top Level Domain zones.

Well, now the ICANN have sent an ultimatum to VeriSign to stop this irresponsable behaviour.

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OpenSSL vulnerabilities in ASN.1 parsing

Wednesday, October 1st, 2003

Four new OpenSSL security vulnerabilities have been reported. According to OpenSSL website these are the vulnerabilities…

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