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DNS fear mongering and Windows Vista

Joris Evers has this alarming piece today "Will Vista stall net traffic?" Just to clarify, the story was talking about the potential of Windows Vista to double DNS traffic and possibly overload existing DNS servers. Paul Mockapetris raised an alarm on a possible DNS meltdown last month but is...

Tags: IPv6, DNS

Blog posts 2006-09-06

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One more reason to skip Vista (for now)

One more reason to skip Vista for nowWhy would your DNS servers be "sweating"?DNS is a lightweight protocol that is efficiently distributed, and can be run on a cheap PC too old for anyone... even a school... to seriously use. I've had the local school refuse to take *as donations*...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Domain names, NETWORKING, Burning CD, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, DNS, IPv6

Discussion threads 2006-09-11

One more reason to skip Vista (for now)

By now you have probably heard reports that Windows Vista may slow down Internet traffic (Will Vista stall Net traffic?). Microsoft doomsayers (of which I'll admit, I used to be one) will tell you that the latest OS out of Redmond will doom the Internet to miserable congestion and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, DNS

Blog posts 2006-09-10

Will Vista stall Net traffic?

Will Vista stall Net traffic?JimWhat will clog the internet is not the IPV6 or IPV4 protocols, what will clog it is the continual connection to the mothership. So if anything that is the problem Microsoft Vista will introduce. I have seen it with WindowsXP (until you get most of the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), NETWORKING, Domain names, Operating systems, windoze Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista, IPv6, Internet, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-09-06

Happy Birthday WWW (and the W3C)!

The World Wide Web Consortium (the W3C) is holding a single-day conference in Boston today in celebration of its 10-year anniversary.  The Web itself, according to W3C spokesperson Janet Daly, is 16 years old. The main conference room a ballroom at the Fairmont Copley Plaza is packed with the key movers...

Tags: W3C, Web, Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee

Blog posts 2004-12-01

Bronze or iron age?

In my interview with Vint Cerf, he characterized the Internet as moving from the stone age to the iron age. Now in a BBC interview another Internet pioneer--Paul Mockapetris, who created Domain Name System (.com, .org, etc.) in 1983--says: "At best we are at the Bronze Age, we are...

Tags: Bronze Age, Internet

Blog posts 2004-06-23