Sysadmins told to update their software or risk killing the internet

  • 22 August 2017
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The DNS signing keys are changing for the first time

By Kieren McCarthy in San Francisco 22 Aug 2017  

 
The world's internet providers and sysadmins need to make sure they are running up-to-date software or they risk cutting their customers off from the internet in October, DNS overseer ICANN has warned.
 
Following a process that started back in May 2016, the cryptographic keys that secure the foundations of the domain name system will be updated for the first time.
 
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Doh! Well, hello...what do Sys Admins do all day...any half decent ones would be on this as a matter of course. 

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