Cinco De Mayo - the 5th may be a bad day in internet history

Well it looks like the new DNS security protocol is being implemented on all 13 Root DNS servers (control the whole internet for the entire earth) on May 5th. This should prevent DNS hacker attempts.

Unfortunately it also breaks the compatibility with many networking devices around the world, most devices have a limit of 512 bytes for DNS packets, but the new DNSSEC protocol could often times generate 4 times that.

This means that some devices may not pass name info to tell your computer where Facebook is located.

All 13 root servers will be updated at 10AM PST MAY 5th.

Read more here.