<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:44 AM, McTim wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>HI all,<br><br>2010/4/14 Anne-Rachel Inné <<a href="mailto:annerachel@gmail.com">annerachel@gmail.com</a>>:<br><snip><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Internet users face the risk of losing their internet connections on 5 May<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">when the domain name system switches over to a new, more secure protocol.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">While the vast majority of users are expected to endure the transition to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">DNSSEC smoothly, users behind badly designed or poorly configured firewalls,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">or those subscribing to dodgy ISPs could find themselves effectively<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">disconnected.<br></blockquote><br>Is this actually correct or dodgy web "Journalism"??<br><br>Isn't it the case that this will only happen if you are using a DNS<br>server with DNSSEC turned on?</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div> I would suggest there are very, very<br>few of those on the Continent.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>yes, and i am just wondering how many will try to enable dnssec on their recursive DNS server or use one of the tools(plugins for browsers, resolvers, etc...) with dnssec enabled by default we will see around without really knowing what it means through the dnssec fever.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I also noticed that the expression "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">when all13 roots are signed" is getting popular. DNSSEC does not sign server, it signs zone. We should say "When all the 13 roots are serving signed root zone"</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">thanks</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">--alain</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A<br>route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net">AfrICANN@afrinic.net</a><br>https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>