DNS Flag Day, Friday, Feb 1st, 2019
Mark Andrews
marka at isc.org
Thu Jan 24 00:22:44 UTC 2019
I’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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Mark Andrews, ISC
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