Cascade 0.1.0 beta1 “Slàinte mhath” is out, so this is your opportunity to kick the tires and take it for a spin around your testing grounds!

As we gear up to the production release of our DNSSEC signer, we're eager to hear your feedback so we can incorporate it while we add improvements that we still have in the pipeline which we consider essential for production use.

Read all about it in our blog post!
https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/cascade-beta1-release/

#DNS #DNSSEC #OpenSource #rustlang #LoveDNS

Attention #DNS fans and Community members.

Steve Sullivan survived #OARC46 and #RIPE92, so naturally we are sending him right back out into the community.

Next stop: Bellevue, Washington for #NANOG97 at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue.

If you are attending, please say hello! Steve would be glad to connect, talk about DNS-OARC, and help anyone interested to find their way into the @dnsoarc community and Mattermost Community chat

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Our @dnsoarc #OARC46 wrap-up blog is now live.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Edinburgh and online for two days of DNS operations, research, measurement, security, and community discussion.

Read the full recap, including attendee numbers, programme highlights, community moments, and what’s next:

https://dnsoarc.medium.com/a00570fb856e?source=friends_link&sk=b5f269b44f5110f7d7b79fbea7850c16

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The four organizations who maintain your favorite open-source DNS software, ISC, CZ.NIC, PowerDNS and NLnet Labs, gave a lighting talk at @dnsoarc 46 about the avalanche of LLM-assisted security reports for their projects, and the effect it has on us and our users.

The last slide ends on a “Hug your OSS maintainer" note, but I think this is understating the gravity of this situation. I hope we put forward a stronger message during the repeat of this presentation at RIPE 92.

People need to consider that we are in a situation where developers with talent, purpose and experience have created something valuable for the internet community over the last 20+ years. They could have chosen to work at $MEGACORP for twice, three times the pay, but they chose to do something meaningful.

Now, the body of work they carefully designed and maintained over the last decades is being picked apart by an LLM. Yes, as a result the products become some definition of “more secure” but there is no reasonable prospect that this avalanche of reports will end. Ignoring them is not an option. Feature development has come to a halt.

As an employer, what am I supposed to tell my developers? Thanks for creating this amazing DNS software over the last 20 years, it looks like you’ll spend the next couple of years triaging and fixing bugs and coordinating CVEs with your peers.

How do we keep people motivated to do open source and even if we do, how do we keep this development model sustainable? We can’t pivot to the ‘agentic era’ just like that and even if we could, I think my colleagues do this job to create something amazing—artisanal if you will—not to to maximize output at all costs so shareholders get rich.

Practically though, encouraging organizations to purchase a support contract will certainly help on the short term, because:

- You will get access to world class support;
- You will get early security vulnerability notices under NDA, keeping your critical infrastructure safe from a whole new class of LLM fueled risks; and
- In the grand scheme of things, you will help keep this open source model sustainable so your favorite DNS software continues to exist and thrive.

#DNS #LoveDNS #LLM #FOSS #OpenSource #RIPE92

https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/56/contributions/1233/

As #OARC46 comes to a close, Phil Regnauld of @dnsoarc will wrap up the workshop with final remarks following two days of presentations, discussion, and collaboration from across the global DNS community.

“OARC 46 Wrap Up”
Sunday, 17 May 2026
16:55 BST (Edinburgh) / 15:55 UTC

Thank you to all of the speakers, attendees, sponsors, volunteers, and community members who helped make OARC 46 possible.

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@dualkei of SMOTI Enterprises Inc closes out the #OARC46 programme with a reminder that while many users may not think about DNS every day, DNS is deeply intertwined with everything they do online.

“You may not be interested in the DNS, but the DNS is interested in you..” Sunday, 17 May 2026 16:30 BST (Edinburgh) / 15:30 UTC

Join us for the closing technical session of OARC 46.

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The Root DITL dataset continues to provide valuable insight into global DNS activity. Kazunori Fujiwara from Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd will present estimation analysis based on the dataset at #OARC46.

“Estimation on the Root DITL Dataset” Sunday, 17 May 2026 15:10 BST (Edinburgh) / 14:10 UTC

@dnsoarc OARC 46 wraps up Sunday afternoon in Edinburgh.

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