RE: Curious Cloudflare DNS behavior

["Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf () dessus com>]

On Saturday, 30 May, 2020 13:18, Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net> wrote:

> The Internet didn't evolve in the way its designers expected.  Early
> mistakes and errors required terrible remediation.  As an example, look
> at the difficulty involved in running a service like e-mail or DNS.
> E-mail requires all sorts of things to interoperate well, including
SPF,
> DKIM, SSL, DNSBL's, etc., etc., and it is a complicated service to run
> self-hosted.  DNS is only somewhat better, with the complexity of
DNSSEC
> and other recent developments making for more difficulties in
maintaining
> self-hosted services.

I've been running my own DNS and e-mail for more than a quarter century.
Contrary to your proposition it hasn't gotten much more complicated over
than time.

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