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Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

  • From: Florian Weimer
  • Date: Mon Sep 22 10:56:26 2008 
* Jason Frisvold:

> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Scott Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> nice to see a wholesale DNSSEC rollout underway (I must confess to being a
>> little surprised at the source, too!). Granted, it's a much more manageable
>> problem set than, say, .com - but if one US-controlled TLD can do it, hope
>> is buoyed for a .com rollout sooner rather than later (although probably not
>> much sooner :)).
>
> I'm not much up on DNSSEC, but don't you need to be using a resolver
> that recognizes DNSSEC in order for this to be useful?

Correct, you need a validating, security-aware stub resolver, or the
ISP needs to validate the records for you.

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