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Comment by elevation

15 hours ago

I've considered hard-coding some addresses into firmware as a fallback for a DNS outtage (which is more likely than not just misconfigured local DNS.) Events like this help justify this approach to the unconcerned.

The irony is that DNS is a global and distributed system meant to be resilient. It’s the DNSSEC layer on top in this case causing problems.

  • The global and distributed system relies on the system actually returning valid responses. If the root servers are broken, whether it's a problem with RRSIG records or A records, the TLD is broken.

    If my domains' DNS servers start pointing at localhost, that doesn't mean DNS is a broken protocol.

  • denic is the single source of truth for zones under .de.

    The only problem with DNSSEC here is that it's complex.

    • A complex thing where making a mistake makes your domains drop off the internet seems like a pretty big "only problem".