Two recent events are once again bringing the internet’s foundational Domain Name System into the news, and not in a good way.

The first event involving the DNS last week was a warning from the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency issued on Friday for version 9 of the Berkeley Internet Name Domain, or BIND.

The second news item relevant to DNS concerns an open letter issued Friday by Vint Cerf, Stephen Crocker, Carl Landwehr and several others, entitled “Concerns over DNS Blocking.”

More specifics can be found in my story for SiliconANGLE here.