Your Internet may fail tomorrow

May 4, 2010 · View Comments

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Expect a big Internet failure tomorrow. Just letting you know.

Network managers are being urged to run a series of checks on their routers and firewalls to ensure their users will still be able to connect to internet sites in the wake of a major change to the internet’s domain name system next week.

On May 5, the world’s top domain authorities (led by ICANN, the US Government and Verisign) will complete the first phase of the roll-out of DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) across the 13 root servers that direct user requests to the relevant websites on the internet.

[via www.itnews.com.au]

If you’re having problems, this will be why.

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  • http://twitter.com/Music_Gurl2007 Ternesha Bradley

    Oh great! :(

  • http://www.kevinclifford.info/ Kevin

    Comcast started doing this awhile ago, I switch the DNS when they started betaing it :T

    (http://www.dnssec.comcast.net/, I’d inline link it, but not sure what type of formatting this uses ;_;)

  • http://www.kevinclifford.info/ Kevin

    Comcast started doing this awhile ago, I switch the DNS when they started betaing it :T

    (http://www.dnssec.comcast.net/, I’d inline link it, but not sure what type of formatting this uses ;_;)

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