SMBs need to prepare for future success today. Many small businesses, particularly those powered by online marketing and increasingly dependent on e-commerce, know they might see spikes in online traffic anytime, but they may not ready for it. It’s important for them to get prepared, all while staying in a reasonable budget. That being said [...]
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Network Complexity: Three Trends That are Contributing to a “Perfect Storm”
Most everyone is familiar with Moore’s Law, which stated simply holds that computing power doubles every 18 months. This has been going on since the 1960s and shows no sign of slowing. Moore’s Law drives faster and faster computing, which produces more and more data and network complexity. This inexorable trend is putting immense pressure on corporate networks, and the strain is too much for many of them to handle on their own.
Please Speak My Language
In the beginning (January 1, 1970), the future was bright. Vint Cerf created IPv4 to provide an inexhaustible number of device addresses. The ARPANET allowed only ASCII (the characters handed down by the Romans plus Guttenberg’s hyphen). After all, who would use this network—if it even worked—besides some universities and the Department of Defense? Everybody everywhere and Vint Cerf’s wine cellar, it turns out. As the Internet becomes truly global and welcomes all of humanity, we are…READ MORE
Launching Ultra DDI!
Today marks the start of a new adventure for Neustar. We’re launching Ultra DDI! Ultra DDI is a new managed service offering, one that manages DNS, DHCP and IPAM (IP address management) inside a private network. We’re excited about the new offering for a lot of reasons: One, we’re seeing the problems of network complexity increase, and more IT departments are looking for options to help manage the craziness. Two, we’re in a unique position to provide the best level of service. We have D…READ MORE
Whither IPv6? An IPv6 Primer & Recommendations
Whither IPv6? Introduction IPv6 (Internet Protocol, version 6) is a replacement protocol for IPv4, which we have today. IPv6 was primarily developed to stave off the impending exhaustion of the IPv4 address pool. IPv4 is a 32 bit binary number, represented in decimal form, such as 204.74.108.1 (which happens to correspond to pdns1.ultradns.net). This 32-bit IPv4 address pool provides approximately 4.2 billion unique addresses that may be used by systems on the Internet. In contrast, IPv6…
Federal News Radio Interview: Neustar’s Rodney Joffe on the Mariposa Botnet Arrests
With several customers and the alleged perpetrator of the Mariposa botnet now in custody, Neustar’s Rodney Joffe – a key advisor to the Mariposa Working Group – shares his thoughts with Chris Dorobek on Federal News Radio in Washington, D.C.The arrests were the culmination of a coordinated effort between the Mariposa Working Group, the FBI, and law enforcement authorities in Spain and Slovenia. Joffe says that this type of multi-directional information flow should be upheld as a model for how..
On Spanish Butterflies and Cyber Crime
My current non-work project is helping my elderly mother write her life stories. She uses Google docs, which makes it easy for me to rollback changes when she accidentally deletes a story. When she gets stuck working her laptop (which is often), I use a remote desktop application to help her. She is having a great time reconnecting with friends and discovering how much great information is out there. However…She does not read error and dialog boxes, because nothing contained in them makes s…
One Hundred Domain Names per Second Registered in .CO General Availability Phase
.CO Internet S.A.S. (jointly owned by Neustar and the Colombian company Arcelandia S.A.) launched public registration for the new .CO domain on July 20. The registry handled over 90 thousand registrations in the first 15 minutes. A little over a week after the General Availability launch, the registry now contains over 380,000 domain names. In the Launch Phases leading up to the official public opening of the domain, .CO Internet received over 39,000 domain applications including
Pomp & Circumstance (the root DNS zone graduates to full DNSSEC)
Amid quite a lot of hoopla the root DNS zone of the global public Internet “graduated” into full DNSSEC operation on July 15 (give or take a day depending on the timezone). Having been involved with DNSSEC since it was still a DARPA research project in the mid 1990′s, I don’t know whether I want to be happy to see this (joining in the crowd of folks congratulating each other on a job well done) or just a little cynical that it took so long to get here (joining in with the crowd that..
Worldwide DNS lookup times – Slower than you think.
Aladdin Nassar from Microsoft’s Hotmail team recently presented some interesting network performance statistics at the Velocity 2010 conference. The whole presentation is certainly worth watching but particularly interesting was the following slide presented at the 10-minute mark on worldwide DNS and TCP performance from over 950 million data points with users that have the Bing Toolbar installed…
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