In message <[email protected]>, Martin Rex writes
:
> Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> > 
> > The weakest DNS architectural idea is the notion that DNS resolvers are
> > untrusted. This is simply wrong. Every DNS resolver performs a trusted role
> .
> 
> Nope, just the opposite.  Name to address translation is meant to
> be an extremely lightweight and fast service.

The DNS is not just name to address translation.
 
> Hostnames are NOT supposed to be trusted in any way and it a serious
> misconception to think they're trusted.
> 
> If you want to authenticate your peer, use something like an SSH host key.

And how do you know you should trust the host key the remote machine presents?

> The routing of datagrams on the internet is also untrusted, so any notion
> that a service that translates hostnames into IP-Addresses should be
> trusted is fatally flawed and is totally ignorant about the fundamental
> architecture of the internet.
> 
> -Martin
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