DNS Flag Day, Friday, Feb 1st, 2019

[marka at isc.org (Mark Andrews)]

Iâ??ve been complaining for YEARS about lack of EDNS compliance.

If you run really old Windows DNS servers you are broken.

If you run a firewall in front of your DNS server you may be broken.

If you are QWEST you are broken.

Mark

> On 24 Jan 2019, at 11:10 am, Brian Kantor <Brian at ampr.org> wrote:
> 
> Quoting from the web site at https://dnsflagday.net/
> 
>  What is happening?
> 
>  The current DNS is unnecessarily slow and suffers from inability      
>  to deploy new features. To remediate these problems, vendors of
>  DNS software and also big public DNS providers are going to
>  remove certain workarounds on February 1st, 2019.
> 
>  This change affects only sites which operate software which is
>  not following published standards. Are you affected?
> 
> On that web page, there is a Domain Owner's test.  You can enter
> a domain name and click 'test' and shortly receive a report of
> what was found regarding your domain's DNS servers.
> 
> I somehow managed to miss the announcement of this upcoming event,
> even though I read this mailing list fairly closely.  Perhaps it
> was announced somewhere else instead.  I think it needs to be
> mentioned here if it hasn't already been.
> 	- Brian
> 

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