Maciej Kranz, the author of Building the Internet of Things, has a blog in which he espouses his Latest Thinking. In the latest instalment (Seven Trends Changing IoT — and…
How to enter that VMware BIOS Setup Prompt
Using virtualised systems and dev-ops processes means that most of the time it is easier to build something afresh using templates and tools than to make changes to an existing…
Wireshark 2.4.6 on CentOS 7 available via repository
Note: 11 January 2018. We have updated the repository with Wireshark 2.6.6 This is the last version of 2.4 in the repository. This is a maintenance release of Wireshark 2.4. The…
West African Internet Outage
Oracle's Dyn service have a research lab, who analyse information from the Internet. In the blog entry below, they look at the recent loss of connectivity on the ACE (Africa…
Cloudflare adds Secure DNS service on 1.1.1.1
Cloudflare has expanded the range of secure DNS services available. As well as Cisco's OpenDNS, Google's DNS service, Oracle's Dyn, and the recent Quad 9 service, Cloudflare now adds 1.1.1.1…
RFC8369: Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-bit Unicode
In a forward-looking RFC that presupposes an expansion of the Unicode address space to 128-bits, it is proposed that IPv6 addresses may instead of the standard notations proposed in RFC8600,…
RFC8367: Wrongful Termination of IP Packets
In a continuation of the serious consideration our standards bodies place on keeping the Internet relevant to society, today the IETF has issued RFC8267. IP packets are often terminated by…
OpenContrail becomes Tungsten Fabric
The Linux Foundation has recently obtained the OpenContrail source from Juniper. Having fully transitioned OpenContrail into the Linux Foundation, it is now rebranded as Tungsten Fabric. This move may appear…