All of our staff profiles so far have been of our engineers, who are of course very important and make up the majority of ISC.| Latest News on ISC
Fred Baker, ISC Board Member from 1994 - 2025| www.isc.org
ISC is excited to announce the release of Kea 3.0.0! This is a major release, and is the first Long-Term Support (LTS) version of Kea.| www.isc.org
Stork 2.2 adds DNS support Since the last stable version of Stork we have begun adding support for monitoring DNS alongside DHCP.| www.isc.org
A serious HTTPS vulnerability prompted us to check on the security of communications between Stork agents and the Stork server.| www.isc.org
Hurrah! Twelve new open source hooks in Kea 2.7.7! With the release of Kea 2.| www.isc.org
In the computer world, we commonly store temporary data in a cache to make programs run smoothly.| www.isc.org
We’re back with another look at one of ISC’s staff members: Ben Scott!| www.isc.org
ISC’s Senior Software Engineer Marcin Siodelski is attending the upcoming DNS Hackathon in Stockholm, sponsored by Netnod, DNS-OARC, and the RIPE NCC.| Latest News on ISC
The US Executive Order “Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity”, published on January 17, 2025, calls for a number of measures to strengthen cybersecurity in the US.| www.isc.org
ISC’s Organizational Health and Operations Financially and organizationally ISC is in good health, with no major concerns.| www.isc.org
Here are some of the events ISC staff plan to participate in during the first half of 2025.| www.isc.org
At the ICANN 81 meeting in Istanbul on 10 November 2024, I gave a presentation about the DNS Root Server System, in an effort to increase understanding of the Root Server System (RSS) and Root Server Operators (RSOs).| www.isc.org
With great pride, we present ISC’s annual report for 2020. The year was a terrible one in so many ways, but our organization has been fortunate.| Latest News on ISC
Internet Systems Consortium today submitted comments on the proposed NIS2 Directive to the European Commission.| Latest News on ISC
Here at ISC, we are constantly working to improve our software and to look forward at what our customers and users will need from us in the future.| Latest News on ISC
While sitting at your desk, hard at work managing your BIND server or your Kea DHCP instance, have you ever thought to yourself, “Oh, how I wish I had an awesome ISC shirt to wear, and a cool ISC hat to keep my head warm, and a beautiful ISC mug to hold my coffee”?| Latest News on ISC
ISC is fortunate to have staff members in so many different countries around the world: our software development benefits from all the different perspectives - and we benefit personally!| ISC
It’s been a while since we’ve profiled one of our engineers, so we’re overdue.| www.isc.org
ISC launched the Stork management application almost exactly five years ago, in November 2019, as an experimental tool.| ISC
On the long-term scale of human history, 25 years is nothing.| ISC
Today, ISC is proud to release BIND 9.20.0, our newest stable branch.| ISC
Kea/DHCP news At the end of May, we released Kea 2.| ISC
Authors: Jason Goertzen, David Joseph, Peter Thomassen BIND & liboqs: A PQC DNSSEC Field Study The DNS protocol is the internet’s phonebook.| ISC
Update posted June 27th, 2024 This was not the fraud we thought it was We have learned that emails we originally identified as abuse were sent by an external contractor engaged by ISC to conduct a focussed and short-term lead generation campaign.| ISC
ISC’s software engineering team is thrilled to announce the release of Kea 2.| ISC
BIND 9 is Unaffected by the DNSBomb We have been researching and testing a DNS vulnerability report called the DNSBomb (CVE-2024-33655).| ISC
The BIND 9.16 branch is approaching EOL. This branch was first published on March 6th, 2020, four years ago.| ISC
Many Kea DHCP users use ISC packages, so we want to let everyone know that we will be cleaning up some older repositories on Cloudsmith.| ISC
Overview PROXYv2 protocol support has been added in the BIND 9.| ISC
In the aftermath of yesterday’s BIND announcement of seven new CVEs, one of them with a fairly wide impact, BIND users might be wondering why ISC publishes so many security vulnerabilities.| ISC
Yesterday we published BIND 9.16.48, 9.18.24, and 9.19.21. These releases mitigate several vulnerabilities that are described in our announcement.| ISC
We have recently received several questions from customers about the TsuKing vulnerability and whether BIND 9 is susceptible to it.| ISC
Kea Configuration with Stork Stork is an open source project that provides a graphical interface for monitoring, and now also configuring, Kea DHCP servers.| ISC
This article focuses on benchmarking resolver performance, using a methodology that aims to provide near-real-world performance results for resolvers.| ISC
Stork 1.13 is the newest development release of our management tool for the Kea DHCP server.| ISC
We are only one quarter away from producing the next stable branch of BIND, and from ending maintenance of BIND 9.| ISC
It’s time once again to get to know one of our engineers!| ISC
Five of us from ISC attended the RIPE 86 meeting in Rotterdam, May 22 - 26, 2023.| ISC
Each quarter we like to profile one of our engineers, to let our customers and users get more familiar with some of the people they may interact with as they use our software.| ISC
ISC and NLnet Labs today sent a joint letter to the European Parliament committee working on the EU Cyber Resilience Act.| ISC
ISC is delighted to announce its spring 2023 webinar series, focused on Kea DHCP.| ISC
There was some good news this year, and plenty of bad news.| ISC
Aliasing in the DNS and HTTPS/SCVB RRs It would be very handy to be able to establish an alias for an apex record in the DNS.| ISC
DNS Wildcards A “wildcard” is a DNS resource record whose owner’s name starts with an asterisk.| ISC
We recently dealt with an interesting case of a fleet of BIND 9.| ISC
Maximize Performance or Flexibility in Your Kea DHCP Installation Kea can be deployed in multiple configurations, to optimize either performance or flexibility.| ISC
It’s time once again to reflect back on our accomplishments of the past year.| ISC
Today ISC is pleased to announce the release of BIND 9.| ISC
Well, we’ve made it through 2021. This was supposed to be the year when vaccines defeated the coronavirus, but it hasn’t quite turned out that way.| www.isc.org
Kea in 2023 We made a total of 13 Kea DHCP releases in 2023: 10 development releases (2.| www.isc.org
As always, this year has had its ups and downs, but 2023 has been a predominantly good year for ISC and we hope it has been for you as well.| www.isc.org
It is summertime and even though you might rather be at the beach, this could be a good time to check in on what has been going on with BIND.| www.isc.org
Kea 2.4 is the newest stable branch of the Kea DHCP server, suitable for production deployment.| www.isc.org
Four of us from ISC attended the NANOG 88 meeting in Seattle, Washington on June 12- 14th.| www.isc.org
Practical BIND 9 Management BIND 9 can produce an extensive array of log messages and metrics.| www.isc.org
Let’s face it: 2020 has been a terrible year for a lot of people in a lot of ways.| www.isc.org
ISC’s Eddy Winstead will be giving a one-day DNS Fundamentals course at the upcoming NANOG meeting in Atlanta.| www.isc.org
The first lines of code for BIND 9 were produced in 1998, which means that the original BIND 9 architecture is 25 years old!| www.isc.org
The Basics The basic BIND 9 memory management object is a memory context: the application can have as many as is practical.| www.isc.org
At the end of 2022, we are introducing some changes to the tools and procedures we use for signing the source code releases of our software, to make the whole process simpler and more robust.| www.isc.org
ISC is hiring another technical support engineer! The technical support team is the heart of ISC: the revenues from technical support services are what fund ISC’s operations.| www.isc.org
Each quarter we like to profile one of our engineers, to acquaint our customers and users with some of the people they may interact with as they use our software.| www.isc.org
Kea 2.2 is our newest stable branch of the Kea DHCP server, suitable for production deployment.| www.isc.org
Each quarter we like to profile one of our engineers, to acquaint our customers and users with some of the people they may interact with as they use our software.| www.isc.org
Most of our recent engineer profiles have focused on new ISC staff members, but now it’s time to get up close and personal with someone who’s been here more than 11 years: Eddy Winstead!| www.isc.org
ISC customers often have a training component to their support contract and should contact their account representative to discuss options.| www.isc.org
We are aware of the Log4J/Log4JShell vulnerability published recently. Several users have asked if ISC software is exposed to this vulnerability.| www.isc.org
We are very proud to announce that we have just posted a new stable branch of Kea, Kea 2.| www.isc.org
ISC plans to end maintenance of the ISC DHCP client and relay by the end of Q1, 2022.| www.isc.org
Each quarter we like to profile one of our engineers, to acquaint our customers and users with some of the people they may interact with as they use our software.| www.isc.org
BIND 9 Development BIND 9.18 was released at the beginning of 2022.| www.isc.org
We’ve had another good year with F-Root, with twelve new sites coming online, and two Classic sites getting upgraded to F-single configuration (see below for an explanation of the difference).| www.isc.org
2021 was, sadly, a lot like 2020 for a lot of people: a year of private disappointments and losses for many of us as individuals.| www.isc.org
ISC is constantly striving to provide better service to our customers, and the most significant way we do that is by hiring hands-on network administrators who are passionate about open source.| www.isc.org
ISC is delighted to announce the release of Stork 1.0.0. This release marks the end of our first phase of development.| www.isc.org
The BIND 9 core development team includes three people who focus on quality assurance.| www.isc.org
As more and more organizations and companies have recognized the importance of professional support for their Internet infrastructure, ISC’s support team has continued to grow.| www.isc.org
DNS over HTTPS Update It has been a long time since our last blog on the BIND 9 DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) implementation.| www.isc.org
Raise Your Standards for Application Security If you work in IT you know you need to constantly refresh your cyber defense skills.| www.isc.org
Kea can use several different databases as storage “backends” for leases, host reservations, or configuration data.| www.isc.org
DNS Over HTTPS With BIND 9.17, Ubuntu 21.04 And LetsEncrypt This is a repost of a blog by Richard Neal from TalkDNS, reprinted with permission.| www.isc.org
We’re happy to share another short profile of one of our engineers and we hope our customers enjoy learning a little more about our team!| www.isc.org
Recently announced TsuNAME vulnerability does not impact BIND 9 Last week researchers announced the TsuNAME vulnerability that impacted several of the largest hosted DNS services on the Internet, including Google’s public DNS and Cisco’s OpenDNS.| www.isc.org
We have updated the Kea release plan in our Knowledgebase to show that we expect to issue new major versions approximately every year, and each one will be supported for two years.| www.isc.org
Status of DNS-over-HTTPS support in BIND 9 as of March, 2021 The latest development release of BIND 9 contains a significant number of improvements to DNS-over-HTTP (DoH).| www.isc.org
Here’s another short profile of one of our engineers. We hope our customers enjoy learning a little more about our team!| www.isc.org
DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in BIND 9 The February 2021 development release of BIND (9.| www.isc.org
There is nothing more satisfying than seeing that users are extending and modifying your open source project.| www.isc.org
Dear BIND Users, At the end of 2017 we announced a new BIND release model.| www.isc.org
2020 is finally over, and we can assess the damage. We at ISC are thankful that we have emerged remarkably unscathed by either the pandemic or the related economic disruption.| www.isc.org
We are happy to present another short profile of one of our engineers, to let our customers learn a little more about us.| www.isc.org
The Day the Internet Broke The successful massive DDoS attack on Dyn during the fall of 2016 caused some popular sites - including Amazon, Netflix, and Twitter - to be unreachable for hours, because Dyn was unable to answer authoritative DNS queries.| www.isc.org
In November 2020 some DNS researchers at Tsinghua University and the University of California, Riverside published a paper on a new way to poison the cache of a DNS resolver.| www.isc.org
With the January, 2023 maintenance releases, ISC is now encouraging all our users to consider updating to the 9.| www.isc.org
Updates Since the open source community started mobilizing to respond to the Cyber Resilience Act, there have been a number of excellent blogs on the topic.| www.isc.org
Tips on Remote Working At ISC we have been working remotely for years.| www.isc.org
BIND 9.16.0 has been issued, beginning a new stable branch. New releases of BIND are available for download from our downloads page.| www.isc.org
Two years ago, interest in DNS Encryption was lukewarm… In May of 2018, ISC did a survey asking our users about their interest in deploying various DNS privacy measures, including both QNAME minimization and encryption (DNS over HTTP or DoH and DNS over TLS or DoT).| www.isc.org
On July 30, 2022, Petr Špaček spoke at the DNS-OARC38 conference about the performance effects of DNSSEC validation in BIND 9.| www.isc.org