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> that will probably be around as long as humans exist. My goodness, that's a strong claim to make, about a glue layer in a computing technology that's been ar
by denton-scratch 2y ago
> that will probably be around as long as humans exist.
My goodness, that's a strong claim to make, about a glue layer in a computing technology that's been around for just 50 years. I mean, arguably the internet as we knew it is already dying. The original design of DNS was flawed (no security), and the patches to fix those flaws are far from perfect.
- bdamm 2y agoReplacing Internet infrastructure is incredibly difficult. We'll all be switching over to IPv6... any decade now. DNS was flawed, but it was very good for the time, and it still is the keystone around which the entire Internet functions. That's pretty incredible for a system that has indeed received a lot of patches. And DNSSEC might turn out to be just as well designed as the original DNS. Besides, what are we going to replace it with, namechain? I'll put you on hold while all the ISPs switch over.
- immibis 2y agoOver 50% of Internet traffic is IPv6, by the way.
- denton-scratch 2y ago> but it was very good for the time It's still very good. People keep finding new ways to apply DNS. I was just grumbling about the OTT claim that the DNS will still be there as the last human becomes extinct.
- tptacek 2y agoI think the conventional wisdom is that we are going to replace DNSSEC with nothing. Security is provided at other layers of the stack.
- bdamm 2y agoCertain forms of security cannot be provided by other layers of the stack.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoit's Good Enough and Not Broke, so there's little incentive to iterate I wouldn't mind some alien technology taking over for TCP/IP but that's squarely within the "unforseeable" IMO
- adamomada 2y agoA bit pessimistic, but maybe the subtext is we won’t be around for very much longer