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Stéphane Bortzmeyer
Personal blog · bortzmeyer.org · on HN as bortzmeyersystemsweb
Stéphane Bortzmeyer's personal blog at bortzmeyer.org covers systems and web. Since 2013, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Hijacking of public DNS servers in Turkey, through routing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Stéphane Bortzmeyer's French-language blog for DNS and internet-standards posts, including DNS-over-HTTPS setup, a DNS routing hijack in Turkey, and an explanation of RFC 8240 debates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Hijacking of public DNS servers in Turkey, through routing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-03-30
- Observations about the attack on WikiLeaks2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-01
- Developing DNS-over-HTTPS clients and servers at the IETF101 hackathon2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-23
What Hacker News says?
There is an interesting guide (in French) on best-practices to get DoH up and running with dnsdist ( https://dnsdist.org ) here: https://www.bortzmeyer.org/doh-mon-resolveur.html . You might also be interested in looking at https://dnsdist.org/guides/dns-over-https.html
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on “Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs”Submitted Observations about the attack on WikiLeaks as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThis. Websites are supposed to distinguish internal and external links. It makes it way easier to now what kind of information we will be getting when clicking. My first thought is for a blog [1] which does it pretty well: (internal links are underlined. [1] http://www.bortzmeyer.org/ (fr) (I could not think of an English-speaking website with a similar differentiation right away) Edit: just look at Wikipedia https:…
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on “Complaint-Driven Development”Submitted Observations about the DNS attack on WikiLeaks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTurns out jblow's right. I banished OpenDNS because it was breaking basic DNS functionality to serve its ads (and is terrible privacy wise), this is the exact bad behaviour from ISP openDNS was supposed to help with. But don't take my word for it and read this 2009 post from Stephane Bortzmeyer working at AFNIC in R&D in DNS security[1]. As jblow said the whole "no more ads" post reads as PR spin, same goes for your…
Comment linking /opendns-non-merci.html
on “No more ads”Submitted Getting TAI time on a Debian machine as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://www.bortzmeyer.org/bgp-malaisie.html
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on “Hacking Team and a case of BGP hijacking”Submitted A dynamic experimental DNS server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou might be interested in this (in French, but you may try with google translate or other alternatives :) https://www.bortzmeyer.org/8240.html It is a very interesting explanation of debates around https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8240.txt
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on “Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates”Submitted RFC 8467: Padding Policies for Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS(0)) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLooks like this is actually being done through IGP: http://www.bortzmeyer.org/dns-routing-hijack-turkey.html
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on “Google’s Public DNS intercepted in Turkey”Submitted RFC 8446: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes, but it isn't wizardry. Given the right kind of access, it's actually pretty easy. Take a look at http://www.bortzmeyer.org/dns-routing-hijack-turkey.html for more technical details.
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on “Google’s Public DNS intercepted in Turkey”Submitted Developing DNS-over-HTTPS clients and servers (IETF hackathon) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEnd-to-end security of the channel isn't necessary. DNS is public. There are clues that DNS is broken in those situations that, as with SSL, ultimately your browser would have to present to you. Local validation is all you can count on. E.g. http://www.bortzmeyer.org/dns-swisscom.html Personally, I'm now twice as interested in relying on DNSSEC and running my own DNS resolution rather than relying on third-parties.…
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on “DNSSEC has failed”Submitted Developing DNS-over-HTTPS clients and servers at the IETF101 hackathon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhat makes you tell it looks like DNS poisoning? It if were DNS poisoning, some resolvers would have been poisoned but not all, while, here, everybody saw the attacker's IP address. http://www.bortzmeyer.org/observations-wikileaks.html
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on “WikiLeaks suffers a DNS poisoning attack; The Guardian claims they were “hacked””Submitted DNS Looking Glasses as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNo, nothing indicates it was a poisoning attack. Please check the facts. http://www.bortzmeyer.org/observations-wikileaks.html
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on “WikiLeaks suffers a DNS poisoning attack; The Guardian claims they were “hacked””Submitted RFC 8493: The BagIt File Packaging Format (V1.0) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://www.bortzmeyer.org/8461.html
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on “SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS)”Submitted Hijacking of public DNS servers in Turkey, through routing as a story · 1 points
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