Today the .gov top level domain (U.S. government) was DNSSEC signed. As per "OMB Memo 08-23", all U.S. government agencies must DNSSEC sign their DNS zones (ending with .gov) before the end of 2009. Federal agencies using Simple DNS Plus will be able to DNSSEC sign their zones in the upcoming Sim...
Because of continued reports about DNS amplification / DDoS attacks (DNS requests for NS-records for <root> from spoofed IP addresses), we have added a new option in Simple DNS Plus to make it easy to deal with these requests and keep them out of the log. In the Simple DNS Plus Options dialog / D...
The upcoming Simple DNS Plus v. 5.2 supports hosting DNSSEC signed zones and has built-in functions for managing DNSSEC keys and for signing zones - all in a user friendly GUI of course. What is DNSSEC? Similar to digital signatures for e-mails, DNSSEC authenticates that a set of DNS records orig...
Added January 31th 2009: We have just added a new option in Simple DNS Plus to ignore root requests (and not log them) - click here for details . Hopefully this will make it easier to deal with this attack. Added January 30th 2009: We do NOT recommend blocking the sender's IP address on your fire...
