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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

All Things Distributed

New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them. Comments ().

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Bogons: Do not let them in or through your networks

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Here is a bit more on why: “Bogon” is an informal term used to describe IP packets on the public Internet that claim to be from an area of the IP address space reserved, but not yet allocated or delegated by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) or any of the Regional Internet Registries (RIR).

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DDoS: Understand The Growing Threat From Botnet #14

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DDoS attacks are one of the largest attack methods threatening the stability of the Internet. These events are perpetrated by a collection or botnet of Internet facing devices that communicate with a command and control center for instructions. Thomas Pore. One of the more infamous groups of bots is referenced as Botnet #14.

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A Tutorial For Enhancing Your Home DNS Protection

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The Internet only works because it has a similar automated switching system. Every device you have, indeed, every device on the Internet, uses DNS to determine how to route information to other devices. When you buy Internet service for your home, your Internet Service Provider automatically configures a DNS service for you.

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What is Passive DNS and how do you leverage it in research?

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To best understand passive DNS, one must first understand how DNS works and the value it brings to Internet users. DNS works like a contact application for the Internet. In DNS, this is known as an "A" record and is one of many different record types including, but not limited to AAAA (IPv6), MX (mail), NS (nameserver), and TXT (text).

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

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AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. CTO - Amazon.com. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. CTO - Amazon.com. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.