DNS Flag Day - Telkom website does not support latest security features

[Jamie McKane]

DNS Flag Day - Telkom website does not support latest security features

A coalition of Internet companies recently announced they will stop supporting workarounds to accommodate a Domain Name System (DNS) operators who do not comply with the latest standards.

DNS is the system that translates domain names into Internet Protocol addresses that can be processed by devices.

 

[Johand]

Telkom did not respond to a request for comment about the DNS Flag Day warning.

They will probably attempt to blacklist the entire internet and try to bill then for it. Their incompetence is next to criminal.

 

[zamedic]

This really feels like another stupid, over-sensationalized article.

https://dnsflagday.net/ - test telkom.co.za - yes, there are minor errors, but not breaking errors.

check ANY domain on route53 and you will see they also have minor errors. https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=851817

 

[ponder]

This really feels like another stupid, over-sensationalized article.

https://dnsflagday.net/ - test telkom.co.za - yes, there are minor errors, but not breaking errors.

check ANY domain on route53 and you will see they also have minor errors. https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=851817

Yeah it's a bunch of hype.

Telkom will sort it out.

 

[Geoff.D]

A lot of noise about nothing again.
BTW, DStv.com also fails the test with minor errors, and so do a string of government domains I tested, all with the same minor errors.
Telkomsa.net is okay and passes, and so does saix.net.

Really myBB there is no need to create sensationalism where none exists. Instead, a full analysis of all popular domains in SA would have been much better material for an article as well as some expert opinion of what the significance of the tests are, especially what the significance of the minor errors listed against popular domains means in real terms.

 

[Shellyb1]

Terrible article. So what? What would the impact be? Does anyone understand DNS at mybb? Seems not.

 

[Geoff.D]

Yeah it's a bunch of hype.

Telkom will sort it out.

What is really sad is that myself and my colleagues in our generation in Telkom, we would have been leading the pack with the rest of the IT Industry having to do daily marathons just to try and catch up!

This reminds me of the those that believe it is better to modify rather than to understand, analyse, diagnose and fix!
Not to talk about RTFM and making sure that you are ALWAYS on top of recommendations!
Imagine the thought process that deliberately modifies to avoid complying with RFCs affecting such an important aspect as DNS! Where do these so-called IT experts come from????

 

[ranger]

A lot of noise about nothing again.

IOW, another clickbait article.

BTW, DStv.com also fails the test with minor errors, and so do a string of government domains I tested, all with the same minor errors.
Telkomsa.net is okay and passes, and so does saix.net.

Until quite recently, there has been no real need for telkom.co.za, which mainly serves email-related lookups, to send EDNS responses (many of which are required for CDNs etc.). The only reason might be for DNS cookies to mitigate DNS-based DDoS attacks.

The telkomsa.net DNS servers, which pass the tests, host customer domains (an example one is www.telkombunsinessblog.co.za, though the website HTTP-redirects to the BCX website), which also pass the tests.

The following domains report the same error as telkom.co.za:
- netflix.com
- microsoft.com (and other related domains)
- instagram.com
- snapchat.com
- twitter.com
- gov.za

Are we going to get articles for each of these too (with the author contacting Hulu, Apple, Telegram, etc. for their input)?

 

[kianm]

This really feels like another stupid, over-sensationalized article.

https://dnsflagday.net/ - test telkom.co.za - yes, there are minor errors, but not breaking errors.

check ANY domain on route53 and you will see they also have minor errors. https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=851817

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