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This is true but I can imagine where they might go after the lowest reachable branch of the tree, up to threatening to remove country-level TLDs from the root s
by iamnothere 1y ago
This is true but I can imagine where they might go after the lowest reachable branch of the tree, up to threatening to remove country-level TLDs from the root servers for noncompliance. Only the US really has the leverage to do this, and it would just fragment the internet, as additional root servers would pop up to serve the missing TLDs. So it’s unlikely but possible.
- dc396 1y ago"Additional root servers" popping up that would server missing TLDs would fail DNSSEC validation unless you modified the root hints and turned off DNSSEC or resigned the root zone and updated the trust anchors in validating resolvers.
- iamnothere 1y agoOh it would be chaos, but I’m sure there would be a workaround available within a week. Alternative roots already exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root