Malaysia’s MCMC told to drop DNS redirection scheme

Posted on September 9, 2024 by Guest authors

Malaysia’s Communications Ministry has instructed the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to stop forcing local ISPs to redirect domain name service (DNS) traffic away from third-party DNS servers.

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