[Dnssec-deployment] DNSSEC aware recursive name servers

Edward Lewis Ed.Lewis at neustar.biz
Fri Aug 5 12:46:49 EDT 2011


At 17:33 +0100 8/5/11, Ben Laurie wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis at neustar.biz> wrote:
>>  DNSSEC is designed to do one thing - protect DNS caches.  From this I am
>>  confounded by the noun "DNSSEC aware applications."  DNSSEC was never meant
>>  to be exposed to applications, it is for protecting the DNS.
>
>Perhaps you should think of them as "applications that are using a
>DNSSEC protected cache" then.

Call or label the applications anything you want, DNSSEC is there to 
protect the DNS, specifically caches.
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