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Replacing 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
by bdamm 2y ago
Replacing 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.