A “configuration error” has allowed researchers to access and map the North Korean externally-facing internet, The Next Web reports. “It turns out that there are just 28 domain names using the .KP top level domain,” the report states. “Twenty. Eight.” Researchers were able to access the North Korean internet after “top-level nameservers (which is used to map domain names to IP addresses) was incorrectly configured to allow global DNS zone transfers,” the report continues. The TL;DR project discovered the error and accessed the “top level” data, eventually posting it to GitHub. “This is yet another demonstration of North Korea’s deeply insular and secretive nature,” the report adds.
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