Hydra: Token authentication

Posted on 2024-05-31 by Christopher Causer

Hydra is the name for the central IPAM at the University of Oxford. To those of you that did not know this, I will suggest that you may stop reading further as this blog post is not for you. Right, … Continue reading →

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Hydra – a new DNS/IPAM platform

Posted on 2019-10-10 by Andy Saunders

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of Hydra – our new DNS and IP Address Management platform. This will replace the current DNS web management tool.   Timetable The last DNS update for the current system will be … Continue reading →

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DNS Resolvers – DNSSEC

Posted on 2015-09-22 by Christopher Causer

We are approaching deployment of a new fleet of DNS resolvers and there are a few questions that we would like feedback from the wider ITSS community. Specifically this post is broaching the subject of DNSSEC. Just to be clear, … Continue reading →

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DNS troubleshooting

Posted on 2011-03-02 by Guy Edwards

I thought I’d write a quick reference for support staff not familiar with DNS troubleshooting The basics: DNS requests query a server to ask, for instance, what the IP address of a website is, when all you know is the … Continue reading →

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DNSSEC first steps

Posted on 2011-01-14 by Andy Saunders

DNSSEC is a security extension to the Domain Name System which offers origin authentication of DNS data data integrity authenticated denial of existence This is useful in helping to protect against attacks such as DNS cache poisoning. Information on DNSSEC … Continue reading →

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Relaxing the DNS CNAME rules (a little)

Posted on 2010-07-27 by Oliver Gorwits

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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