Let's just secure the perimeter and live in a world of VPNs and negligently open hosts. I'm not strictly arguing that DNSSEC is a good thing. But I do think it

Let's just secure the perimeter and live in a world of VPNs and negligently open hosts. I'm not strictly arguing that DNSSEC is a good thing. But I do think it makes sense to authenticate data flowing across general networks, no? You're saying the problem isn't a problem because part of the solution is stupid today. I guess it's job security for security professionals to have insecure things floating around that need additional security? At least some people want to solve the problem. The internet as it exists today being engineered around insecure DNS is not a feature. Name one other scenario where there's a preference for no security. People used to say the same thing about the boot process. Now we have secure boot. Maybe that's just stupid too but I feel a lot better knowing that my hardware is booting verified images than whatever happens to be sitting at some address in unprotected memory (as long as I remain the owner of the key).