{"id":17717,"date":"2019-01-31T06:39:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T06:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/?p=17717"},"modified":"2022-04-07T13:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T05:00:30","slug":"dns-flag-day-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/dns-flag-day-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"DNS Flag Day \u2013 Your Website is Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17720 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dnsflagday.gif?resize=696%2C373&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"dnsflagday\" width=\"696\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is DNS Flag DAY?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>DNS Flag Day is a number of DNS software and service providers have announced that they will all cease implementing DNS resolver workarounds to accommodate DNS authoritative systems that don\u2019t follow the EDNS protocol, on or around <strong>February 1st 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a result, domains hosted on servers which do not fully support EDNS may be unreachable or suffer from degraded performance. Read more about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.exabytes.sg\/en\/support\/discussions\/topics\/14000013076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EDNS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>How do I test my own zones?<\/h3>\n<p>Exabytes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/web-hosting\/windows-ssd-web-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows\/Linux shared hosting<\/a> clients who are using Exabytes Network default DNS are safe. For more details, please refer to Exabytes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.exabytes.sg\/en\/support\/discussions\/topics\/14000013076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/support.exabytes.com.my\/en\/support\/discussions\/topics\/14000013074\">announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are\u00a0using load balancers and\/or firewalls that are incompletely\/incorrectly configured or that are unaware of current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/what-is-domain-name-system-dns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNS protocol<\/a> standards, please\u00a0check whether your domain will be affected by this change at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dnsflagday.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/dnsflagday.net\">https:\/\/dnsflagday.net<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Reference<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.isc.org\/docs\/dns-flag-day-will-it-affect-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNS Flag Day \u2013 will it affect you?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2020 | 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/dnsflagday.net\/2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNS flag day<\/a><\/li>\n<li>National Cyber Coordination and Command Centre (NC4)<br \/>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacsa.gov.my\/announce_dns.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNS Flag Day 2019<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you need further information and clarifications regarding this announcement, please do not hesitate to contact us via helpdesk at\u00a0https:\/\/support.exabytes.sg (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.exabytes.sg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exabytes Support<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is DNS Flag DAY? DNS Flag Day is a number of DNS software and service providers have announced that they will all cease implementing DNS resolver workarounds to accommodate DNS authoritative systems that don\u2019t follow the EDNS protocol, on or around February 1st 2019. As a result, domains hosted on servers which do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":17720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[80],"class_list":{"0":"post-17717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-about-exabytes","8":"tag-dns"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dnsflagday.gif?fit=1000%2C536&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbHhPQ-4BL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17717"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22759,"href":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17717\/revisions\/22759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}