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CTO, Senior Network Architect, DNSSEC/IPv6
Joined on January 28, 2010 – Sweden
Total Post Views: 5,890
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Torbjörn Eklöv is the founder and owner of Interlan AB, an IT consulting company in Sweden with 20 employees. He is a DNSSEC and IPv6 pioneer. All internal and external services at Interlan AB uses both IPv6 and IPv4. Interlan AB is also hosting about 200 DNSSEC signed domains. Torbjörn has worked with Internet communication and IT-security for 15 years. Torbjörn is the founder and manager of SEC, Secure End User Connection/SEC ( SKA, Säker KundAnslutning in Swedish), a standard organization that certifies products and broadband networks with the goal to secure subscribers from spoofing and hijacking. His favorite homepage is http://test.ipv6.tk
No one can have failed to notice that the last IPv4 address will soon be allocated. We have lived with a shortage of addresses for 15 years, but when the last address is allocated, the shortage will become acute, instead of just a pain, as it is today... In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams describes the least expensive and most effective method for making something invisible. You simply decide that it is Someone Else's Problem or SEP, if you abbreviate. This is an approach that is frighteningly similar to the Swedish public sector's view of the address shortage on the Internet. "It is not our problem -- if we ignore it, it will probably go away." more»
I have previously pointed out the shortcomings of good and user friendly support for DNSSEC in Microsoft's Server 2008 R2. During the period just after I wrote the post, I had a dialogue with Microsoft, but during the last months there has been no word at all. The reason I bring this up again is that more and more Top Level Domains (TLDs) now enable DNSSEC and also the fact that within six months the root will be signed. more»
