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Italy demands Google poison DNS under strict Pirac...
To some extent it
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decentralized is it not? Other than a small list of who serves which TLD you should be able to find the canonical nameserver for any ___domain.
It should be more normal for people to have a DNS running locally perhaps.
sgjohnson
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> To some extent it is decentralized is it not? No. Everything relies on the root servers, as recursive servers rely on them.
cryptonector
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But you can run your own root servers.
sgjohnson
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And what good does that do?
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Prevents some MITM attacks. You can also run your own TLDs where the registries are public enough.
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It should be more normal for people to have a DNS running locally perhaps.