{"id":4162,"date":"2020-04-30T06:28:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.infoblox.com\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2020-09-24T11:18:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T18:18:26","slug":"infoblox-is-supporting-dns-flag-day-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/blog\/company\/infoblox-is-supporting-dns-flag-day-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Infoblox Is Supporting DNS Flag Day 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 1, 2019 was DNS Flag Day.\u00a0 You\u2019re forgiven if you didn\u2019t know that:\u00a0 The date passed without much fanfare or, as far as I know, any parades.\u00a0 But the date was important nonetheless:\u00a0 Many developers of DNS software and operators of DNS infrastructure banded together to <a href=\"https:\/\/searchsecurity.techtarget.com\/answer\/Will-DNS-Flag-Day-affect-you-Infobloxs-Cricket-Liu-explains\">make a change to the way that DNS works on the Internet<\/a>.\u00a0 The result of that change was positive:\u00a0 Name resolution is faster on average for Internet users.\u00a0 But there was a cost, too:\u00a0 We lost the ability to resolve domain names hosted on older DNS servers that were broken with respect to EDNS0, a set of extensions to DNS written way back in 1999.\u00a0 (But let\u2019s face it:\u00a0 If you can\u2019t get it right in 20 years, you\u2019re unlikely to ever fix it.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4161\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.infoblox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dns-flag-day-2019.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dns-flag-day-2019.png 345w, https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dns-flag-day-2019-300x127.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In fact, DNS Flag Day was so successful that <a href=\"https:\/\/dnsflagday.net\/2020\/#dns-flag-day-2020\">they\u2019re planning another one<\/a>! DNS Flag Day 2020 will be on October 1, 2020.\u00a0 This time, they\u2019re tackling something called <em>fragmentation<\/em>.\u00a0 Basically, when DNS messages are big, the Internet Protocol or IP layer must fragment them to carry them over networks that can\u2019t handle packets that large.\u00a0 But this can cause problems.\u00a0 Fragmentation isn\u2019t always reliable and can cause transmission failures.\u00a0 Even when fragmentation works, it may introduce security risks.<\/p>\n<p>DNS Flag Day 2020 is being driven by a community of DNS software and service providers, and supported by an organization called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dns-oarc.net\/\">DNS-OARC<\/a>, which researches and coordinates DNS operations on the Internet.\u00a0Starting on DNS Flag Day 2020, DNS developers and operators will begin to reduce the size of UDP-based DNS messages their software sends over the Internet to minimize the chance of fragmentation.\u00a0 In some cases, this will cause those DNS servers to 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DNS servers to send DNS messages that won\u2019t cause fragmentation on most networks.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0 And in doing so, we hope we\u2019re doing our small part of making DNS on the Internet more reliable and more secure.<\/p>\n<p>NIOS 8.5.1 information:<\/p>\n<p>Product page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/products\/nios8\/\">https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/products\/nios8\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Datasheet: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/resources\/datasheets\/dns-flag-day-2020\">https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/resources\/datasheets\/dns-flag-day-2020 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solution Note: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/resources\/solution-notes\/nios-8\">https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/resources\/solution-notes\/nios-8 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Service Provider page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/solutions\/service-providers\/\">https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/solutions\/service-providers\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p>DNS Caching page: <a 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