> What security implications?  DNS is such a broken, insecure protocol
> that it would be difficult for it to get *worse*.  This would actually
> make it better since the second tier of DNS servers could actually use a
> fully encrypted, keyed, and authenticated zone transfer.
>
> See DNSSEC: http://www.dnssec.net/

I heard about DNSSEC 5 years ago.  It is really frustrating
that everyone knows how to fix/improve DNS but years/decades
may pass before improvements actually get implemented.

Tim Berns-Lee, father of web, calls DNS the 'Achille's heal'
of the Web.  Makes sense to me.

cs


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