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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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Why do most routers not include local DNS?
Jul 18, 2011
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why the letters in keyboards are arranged like this?
Apr 11, 2009
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How does resolv.conf get populated on installation of a new OS?
Nov 2, 2011
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How can I free up disk space in my Ubuntu Hardy Heron install?
May 18, 2010
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Can I use TCP as DNS query protocol on Mac OS?
May 19, 2010
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Network Speeds Don't Add Up
Mar 21, 2011
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High Packet Loss--My Modem Issue, or is it ISP's?
Aug 10, 2009
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number of Valid hosts in IPv6?
Feb 13, 2011
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Is it normal for a home router to NOT respond to MX requests?
Sep 12, 2010
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What does a network card driver do?
May 25, 2011
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What is the purpose of Node.js module.exports and how do you use it?
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What is the difference between the GNU Makefile variable assignments =, ?=, := and +=?
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Execute the setInterval function without delay the first time
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Pass in an array of Deferreds to $.when()
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Accessing nested JavaScript objects and arrays by string path