OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCurve to secure DNS

Chris Thompson cet1 at cam.ac.uk
Wed Feb 24 17:04:43 UTC 2010


On Feb 24 2010, Evan Hunt wrote:

>> Thats not the case with DNScurve. Again I stress - over 20 billion
>> requests per day at OpenDNS are DNScurve compatible. The traffic in
>> DNSSEC is chicken feed compared to DNScurve.
>
>ORG and GOV and quite a lot of the ccTLD's are "DNSSEC compatible", so I
>don't actually think it'd be much of a horserace if compatibility is all
>you're looking for.  What'll be interesting is how many queries the root
>and TLD servers start seeing for uz5*/NS.

If OpenDNS really believe that DNScurve is the way of the future, why
don't they have such NS records for opendns.com?

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk



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