There are reports of DoH and DoT not working on Maxis Home.

As mentioned elsewhere: very likely this is an exception made for businesses as they need to maintain privacy and security. If their private DNS and/or DoH/DoT suddenly don't work, the system can go down and then government will have to answer. This is probably the conclusion MCMC came to and the best way to block as many people as possible from accessing 'bad things' without affecting money flow.

How come Maxis business allows DoT and DoH then? Is it really just up to the ISP company?

Probably need to check that Maxis Business FAQ section because it might be changed soon.

And on top of that, the reports of them going after VPN.

Really don't like where this is going.

Unifi thread post #5513.

Reverse definitely no, loosen restrictions maybe, but not for the time being. For now must show netizens and socmed that they are hebat and not to be trifled with.

TM, for example, is going all out against public DNS and still adding new IPs to their black hole server. Compare this to when they started DNS blocking sites back in 00s and didn't care if you used Google DNS to bypass.

If some big socmed refuse to get license next year, then it will take even longer for them to let off because many people will be trying to bypass blocks to regain access. Any news or viral incident gov don't want you to see also can put them back on guard.

But yeah, no more Malaysian internet as we knew it. Now can just look out at other countries and envy people who only have to change DNS to a popular provider to bypass blocks.

We know the real reason la: they can't have an easily bypassed block method if they want to force socmed to buy their license starting next year.

If X or Meta or Google don't comply and people can just change DNS to access anyway, the law amendment would be useless.

This post has been edited by blackbox14: Sep 6 2024, 07:42 PM

They should really just limit it to redirecting plain text DNS the way they did it last month with Maxis and TIME. Leave all DoH and DoT alone.

For the internet at this point in time, secure DNS is not something ISP should wrestle away from the user. It's part of so many security measures and as you said: even part of some devices' default settings.

The religious question was one of the businesses asking or one of the MCMC people responding?

Malaysia, where it doesn't matter that you're a legal adult. You are still a child who doesn't know better.

As long as you aren't 'pihak berkepentingan' you don't get a voice in the issue and should just follow what gov says.

Strange. They trying to keep the discussions hush hush maybe?