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ISP Column - June 2025
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Internet 101: IP
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Internet Evolution: Moore's Law, Addressing Architectures, and the Future of Internet Scale
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| | The Internet has evolved from a scarcity-driven system into one defined by abundance, reshaping infrastructure, governance, and economic models while challenging long-held assumptions about addressing, network roles, and the future of protocol design.
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DNS Security, Part IV: Transport security for DNS (DoT, DoH, DoQ)
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| | [AI summary] The text provides an in-depth analysis of encrypted DNS protocols (DoX) and their implications for security, privacy, and network management. Key points include the importance of secure channels for DNS queries, the role of DNSSEC in complementing DoX, and the challenges of implementing encrypted DNS in various network environments. The discussion covers different transport protocols like DoH and DoT, the use of DDR for resolver discovery, and the trade-offs between privacy and network control. The text also touches on the technical and policy aspects of encrypted DNS, including the need for trust in resolvers and the limitations of current implementations.
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Installing FreeBSD 14 on IONOS VPS hosting | smallhacks
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| About IONOS VPS IONOS provides cheap Linux VPS hosting with full root access and unlimited traffic. It also provides a KVM console to administer out-of-band if needed. The only problem is that it does not support FreeBSD; the only available options are Linux flavors. However, I found that installing and using FreeBSD 14 using the...