On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:08:35AM -0400, Yakov Shafranovich wrote
We need to determine for the future consideration of all DNS based
proposal the state of DNSSEC and its planned deployment.
I strongly disagree with your conclusion. If DNS gets compromised
that badly, the entire internet will collapse in a pile of rubble...
- how is an MTA going to figure out the IP address from an MX record
if DNS is kaput ?
- how will people surf to www.bad.example.com if their OS can't get a
reliable IP address ?
- ftp, IRC, chat, messaging, etc. *EVERYTHING* goes down the tubes.
- How many megabytes of hosts file can your OS take before it begins
crawling each time you try a web lookup ?
If we assume that there will be an internet tomorrow, requiring our
solutions for email problems, we must also assume that DNS will be
operational tomorrow.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes(_at_)waltdnes(_dot_)org>
Email users are divided into two classes;
1) Those who have effective spam-blocking
2) Those who wish they did
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