We have written many internal reports for clients over the last two decades. Almost all of these are client confidential internal reports. But where the reports have been made public by the client, we also share them here to provide a cached copy of them still available online.
Papers are listed in reverse chronological order (most recent first).
2023: InternetNZ: Report of External Review into .nz DNSSEC Chain Validation Incident on 29-30 May 2023
This report was prepared for the InternetNZ Council in August/September 2023 in collaboration with Laura Dempsey, Cubal Team Ltd, and published by InternetNZ on 2023-10-06. The report provided an external investigation into the circumstances surrounding problems caused with validating .nz DNS names on Monday 2023-05-29 and Tuesday 2023-05-30 due to oversights in the DNSSEC Rollover process (in brief, not sufficiently updated for other DNS Registry changes that had been made in late 2022 and early 2023).
Resources
- Report on External Review into .nz DNSSEC Chain Validation Incident on 29-30 May 2023 (cached copy; Internet Archive copy)
- Original InternetNZ real time DNSSEC validation incident status
- InternetNZ Internal Technical Report on DNSSEC Chain Validation Incident (published 2023-06-26)
- InternetNZ: .nz Chain Validation Incident Terms of Reference
2000: Netforum 2000: Linux Based Diskless Workstations
Paper written on network booting (diskless) workstations on Linux, to accompany a presentation prepared for the Netforum 2000 conference in October 2000. Much has changed since this paper was written, not least of which is that quiet PCs are much easier to achieve even with (solid state) disk drives in them. But we are keeping this paper online as part of the historical record.
Abstract
Linux has received much popular press as a server operating system, but applications in the workstation area have received less attention. This article describes how to use Linux and PC hardware to produce a diskless workstation booting off the network or a floppy disk. With suitable hardware the days of a quiet work area, free from computer noise, can return.