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Comment by AndroTux

16 hours ago

What if the root (.) certificate breaks?

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pocksuppet  16 hours ago

Resolvers are free to cache each TLD's keys. There's a finite, well-known list of TLDs and their keys - you can download all the root zone data from IANA: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/files (it's a few megabytes in uncompressed text form)

The world might be a little bit better with more decentralization of the root zone.

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