Relaxing the DNS CNAME rules (a little)

In the University we have a web tool which allows IT Staff to update parts of the DNS covering their own unit. It’s a simple tool which we hope one day to replace, but serves well enough for most cases … Continue reading →

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The State of the IPv6 Deployment

At the ICT conference I gave a talk alongside Bob Franklin from Cambridge. Bob covered IPv6 in general and then I covered a deployment case study using our teams deployment plans but trying to make it as general as possible … Continue reading →

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Visitor Network Account Management (enhancements update)

Note: this post relates to a private service for University of Oxford IT Support Staff. Some time back I published a list of proposed updates to the Visitor Network account management web tool, and asked for feedback. Based on that … Continue reading →

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OWL and Eduroam

There seems to be a little confusion out there about how OWL relates to Eduroam so this is a overview to help clarify the situation. We have deployed Eduroam using WPA enterprise. Briefly from the users perspective this means that … Continue reading →

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