IPv6 Buzz 062: Reviewing DNS Flag Day 2020

DNS Flag Day is a community effort by service providers and DNS software vendors to address DNS issues and ensure that this critical protocol functions efficiently and effectively.
In this week’s IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed and Scott speak with guest Andrew Wertkin about the DNS flag day for 2020, which took place October 1st. They discuss the issues that the Flag Day covered, as well as IPv6. Andrew is the Chief Strategy Officer at DDI vendor BlueCat Networks. Prior to that he was CTO at software company PTC.
Topics discussed include:

* What is DNS Flag Day and how did it come about?
* The DNS community’s motivations for this effort and what it’s trying to achieve
* DNS behavior that listeners should look for that might indicate they aren’t current with their DNS settings and configuration
* The differences between IPv4 and IPv6 DNS

Thanks for listening!
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Show Links:
DNS Flag Day 2020
DNS Violations – DNS Flag Day – GitHub
Common Misbehavior Against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses – IETF
IPv4 Flag Day
Andrew Wertkin on LinkedIn
@awertkin – Andrew Wertkin on Twitter
BlueCat Networks
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