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[Paul Vixie]

Pete Ehlke <pde at ehlke.net> writes:

> As Duncan Campbell recently said:
> 
>         a structured, heirarchical, distributed database.
>         a beautiful thing. don't break it.

Actually it (DNS) is an autonomous, reliable, distributed, hierarchical
database, the first and by far the largest of its kind.

> BIND-PE breaks it. Don't use it.

So-called alternative so-called "roots" also break it.  As do DNS-aware
load balancers and DNS-aware NAT boxes.  It's getting so that "reliable"
is becoming "fragile" due to the number of clueless wahoos developing
so-called products that supposedly add (but NOT) "value" to it.
-- 
Paul Vixie