Tag: DNS
Privacy, security and sanity
I’m fairly convinced the internet has become a cesspool of advertising and coercive content meant solely to influence people. Marketing feels less about raising awareness of useful products, services and events and more about convincing a predetermined mark to take an action or believe something. It’s a race to the bottom, with marketers shamelessly using…
DNSCog reports on your website’s domain name servers
DNSCog is a new service that tells us everything we want to know about how our websites’ domain names are configured.
OpenDNS makes Internet faster, safer and cleaner
Over the last several months, there have been many security bulletins about the vulnerabilities found in one of the fundamental technologies that makes the web work called DNS. DNS stands for domain name system. It’s a fairly complex system, but abstractly it’s fairly simple. Every device on the Internet is accessed by Internet protocol (IP)…