#dns
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Quad9 Pulls Out of France Over Court-Ordered Site Blocking
The free DNS resolver Quad9 will stop serving users in France on November 24. The move follows a French court order requiring it to block sites accused of infringing a sports broadcaster's copyrights.
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France asked ISPs to be ready to block major social platforms before Oct. 24 protests
According to the outlet Blast, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu asked telecom operators to stand ready to cut access to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and X two days before a planned demonstration.
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Quad9 to Leave France After Refusing a Court Order to Block Domains
The Swiss nonprofit DNS resolver Quad9 will stop serving French users on November 24, after a court sided with the company beIN and ordered it to block certain domains — a demand Quad9 says it cannot reconcile with its mission.
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Rolling the DNS Root Key: October 11 and a List of Laggard ISPs
Ahead of the latest DNSSEC root key rollover, Geoff Huston measures how many resolvers already trust the new key and names the networks that may run into trouble.
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Why example.com changed: IANA explains
Oliver Dunk emailed IANA to ask about the updated content on example.com — and unexpectedly got a reply straight from the organization's VP.
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Critical Flaw in Unbound's DNSSEC Validator Threatens Remote Code Execution
NLnet Labs has released Unbound 1.26.1, fixing a critical heap overflow in the DNSSEC validator (CVE-2026-81642) that could lead to RCE via a malicious DNS zone, along with eight other vulnerabilities.
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How an NTP Pool Operator Got Caught in a Tesla “Cyberattack”
The owner of a volunteer NTP server found a flood of exploits in his logs from the Assetnote scanner — which had mistaken his machine for Tesla infrastructure because of a bad DNS setup.
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Cloudflare Silently Injects Its Analytics When You Move Your NS Servers
A Hacker News user discovered that after pointing his domain at Cloudflare's name servers, a web analytics script was added to his site without warning. Turning it off took a convoluted chain of settings.
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CubePilot, Maker of Drone Autopilots, Hit by DNS Hijacking
CubePilot, an Australian company that produces flight controllers for drones, has reported a serious breach: attackers seized control of the domain's DNS and intercepted user traffic.
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Namecheap Handed an Account to a Stranger on Nothing but a Phone Request
A 13-year Namecheap customer describes how the registrar handed control of his account to someone who merely asked for it politely over the phone — without any verification whatsoever.