A scheduled London press conference on Monday was cancelled at the last moment, delaying the launch of WikiLeaks' new submission system.

VoIPkb is offering the first "official" FreeSWITCH training in Sydney, Australia.The FreeSWITCH Training Bootcamp is a full 3-day intensive training providing in-depth coverage of FreeSWITCH installation, configuration, maintenance and programming. You will learn, step by step, how to configure, manage and program the FreeSWITCH telephony soft switch in great detail. Tips and tricks in debugging and optimizing FreeSWITCH are also taught.January 17th - 19th, 2011Sydney, Australiawww.voipkb.comLocation: Equinix is located in Unit B, 639 Gardeners Road Mascot, Sydney, NSW 2020. There is abundant parking available at the facility. Equinix is 2.2 km from the airport and 6.2 km from Sydney CBDThese courses are official FreeSWITCH training courses. This course will be taught by Darren Schreiber, one of the co-authors of the new FreeSWITCH book. Who should attend: * VoIP providers seeking “Open Source” platforms to enhance their businesses * Anyone seeking proficiency in FreeSWITCH * Network Consultants and VARs who need a jump start in the technology * Developers who want to use FreeSWITCH to create new telephony applications and appliancesTopics that will be covered in this course: * Install FreeSWITCH on a Linux Machine * Understanding configuration files and the default configuration * Call authentication and routing basics * Integration modules (mod_skypiax, mod_dingaling for Skype/GTalk/XMPP integration) * Understanding presence * Load balancing and high availability * FreeSWITCH Internals * How to debug and troubleshoot FreeSWITCH * Building Custom C Modules * Advanced ModulesThis first FreeSWITCH training course in Australia will be a mixture of lectures and hands-on lab exercises. By the end of the third day students will have completed a number of labs that allow for the successful installation and configuration of a working soft switch that will process calls from within the classroom and from outside numbers and make various routing decisions. If time allows and interest is present, students will also compile a basic custom C module that introduces new dialplan and API commands into the FreeSWITCH system.

The IPv4 address space is rapidly running out but despite this it is impossible to predict when a switch to IPv6 will take place, a senior technologist from a company that makes secure web gateways says.

The Internet Systems Consortium has called for more people to download and test version 10 of the venerable BIND software that is used to run domain name servers.

  My company uses a wide-area Telstra private network. This is Australia's largest telecommunications carrier but maybe they don't visit their own site. As far as I can tell, Telstra's DNS server is not giving out any addresses for telstra.com – but differing Telstra departments say it's not their problem.  

DNS is the Domain Name System and is the central postmaster of the Internet. Changes are coming to add security, but naysayers would have you believe it is Y2K all over again.

From web search to mail to operating systems to applications in the cloud, Google is slowly making its way into nearly every aspect of public life online.

Yesterday, a DNS configuration error left the entire .SE domain adrift on the Internet sea.

Apple has released its second Mac OS X security update in just eight days.

The Internet Corportion for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is meeting in Sydney in late June and progressing its plan to allow almost any string of letters to be used for a global top level domain (gTLD), like .org or .net, will be high on its agenda.