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Director of DNS Operations and Research Fellow at Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., the people behind the BIND 9 DNS server and also operators of F-Root.

Author of RFC 5625, RFC 5966 and RFC 6915, and co-author of RFCs 7216, 7766, 7828, 8490 and 8906.

At IETF, Co-chair of the HOMENET Working Group between 2011 and 2017 and briefly Chair of the GeoPriv Working Group.

In a past life I was Director of Network Operations at a successful B2B ISP in the UK.

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DNS failing to propagate worldwide
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Recommended DNS SOA record TTL default?
Sep 28, 2009
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Using CNAME to point to another domain to save IP addresses
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Oct 9, 2010
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Does Active Directory support DNS names with spaces?
Dec 19, 2011
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DNS: trailing periods
Jun 3, 2009
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hosts file seems to be ignored
Mar 12, 2010
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