bind: Broken inbound incremental zone update (IXFR) can cause named to terminate unexpectedly

Incremental zone transfers IXFR provide a way of transferring changed portions of a zone between servers. An IXFR stream containing SOA records with an owner name other than the transferred zone's apex may cause the receiving named server to inadvertently remove the SOA record for the zone in...

Finding the Best Servers to Answer Queries -- Edge DNS and Anycast

TL;DR IP Anycast is a network addressing and routing methodology that allows IP addresses to be announced from multiple points on the internet With the proper implementation, Anycast can reduce DNS RTTs and offer innate DDoS protection Akamai's authoritative name service, Edge DNS, combines globa...

Security update for bind (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for bind Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1701-1 Rating: moderate References: 1100369 1109160 1118367 1118368 1128220 1156205 1157051 1161168 1170667 1170713 1171313 1171740 1172958 1173307 1173311 1173983 1175443 1176092 1176674 906079 Cross-References:...

Fast DNS: Zone Apex Mapping & DNSSEC

Introduction Along with its DDoS resilience and impressive global footprint, Fast DNS affords zone administrators additional technical flexibility and implementation options. One example is Zone Apex Mapping ZAM -- a feature that enables apex domains to be mapped directly to an Akamai edge IP. Th...

Edge DNS: Zone Apex Mapping & DNSSEC

Along with its DDoS resilience and impressive global footprint, Akamai Edge DNS offers zone administrators additional technical flexibility and implementation options to improve performance and simplify DNS operations. One example is zone apex mapping ZAM, a feature that enables top level hostnam...