Promoting DNSSEC to nay-sayers

[Tony Finch]

sthaug at nethelp.no <sthaug at nethelp.no> wrote:

> > There's a really neat DNSSEC-related improvement on the way: RFC 8198
> > negative answer synthesis. This should greatly reduce the amount of junk
> > queries to the root name servers (and other parts of the namespace too).
> > Should be particularly good for mail servers that deal with amazing
> > amounts of toxic waste.
>
> Which begs the question: Should we expect Joe Average DNS Administrator
> to care about the amount of junk queries to the root name servers?

You win from lower latency responses and wasting less RAM on negative
cache entries.

Tony.
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