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Root DNS Zone Now DNSSEC Signed

Posted by timothy on from the signing-of-the-times dept.

r00tyroot writes with news that slipped by yesterday, quoting from the Internet Systems Consortium's release: "ISC joined other key participants of the Internet technical community in celebrating the achievement of a significant milestone for the Domain Name System today as the root zone was digitally signed for the first time. This marked the deployment of the DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) at the top level of the DNS hierarchy and ushers the way forward for further roll-out of DNSSEC in the top level domains and DNS Service Providers."

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  1. Software development like the good old days... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    “ISC has been intimately involved with the development of DNSSEC for more than fourteen years..." "Today's milestone marked the final step in a seven month process of evaluation and incremental deployment, assuring operational readiness of systems, software, and processes necessary for any significant change to the DNS root."

    Just like the good old days. Not like the Rapid Application Development that pushes crap out the door that goes obsolete before all the bugs are fixed. I miss those days.

  2. Re:What should DNS server administrators do? by mcrbids · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is this gopher thing you write about?

    Is it newer than telnet?

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