Mockapetris

"People had figured out that the old scheme wouldn't work forever," Mockapetris told Computerworld a few years ago.

June 23, 1983: DNS Test Sets Stage for Internet Growth 2008

After testing the new plan and tweaking it for a few months, Mockapetris, Postel and Partridge published their idea in a Request for Comments (RFC) memorandum in November 1983.

June 23, 1983: DNS Test Sets Stage for Internet Growth 2008

Mockapetris--who is also chief scientist and chairman of the board for network naming and address vendor Nominum--says the recent research on corrupted DNS resolution servers by researchers at Georgia Tech and Google demonstrates yet another way the bad guys are attacking DNS to infect users.

"Just one multi-million-dollar corporate data breach away from waking up" Jim Horning 2008

Mockapetris--who is also chief scientist and chairman of the board for network naming and address vendor Nominum--says the recent research on corrupted DNS resolution servers by researchers at Georgia Tech and Google demonstrates yet another way the bad guys are attacking DNS to infect users.

Archive 2008-02-01 Jim Horning 2008

Mockapetris also designed the DNS architecture that is still in use today, wrote the specifications and coded the first implementation.

Pharming Out-Scams Phishing Michelle Delio 2005

Risley said Mockapetris firmly believes it's time to refresh DNS, and that Mockapetris never expected DNS and BIND -- the most widely used DNS software package for Unix/Linux machines -- to be used on today's huge public systems.

Pharming Out-Scams Phishing 2005

Mockapetris also designed the DNS architecture that is still in use today, wrote the specifications and coded the first implementation.

Pharming Out-Scams Phishing 2005

Risley said Mockapetris firmly believes it's time to refresh DNS, and that Mockapetris never expected DNS and BIND -- the most widely used DNS software package for Unix/Linux machines -- to be used on today's huge public systems.

Pharming Out-Scams Phishing Michelle Delio 2005

One thing that is important to understand about domain names, so that an understanding of DNS and DDNS can be gained, is that domain names are hierarchical Mockapetris, 1987.

Site Home Erich Karch 2011

Mockapetris tells NPR's Guy Raz that he never set out to create a revolutionary way of connecting computers.

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