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throwway120385yesterday at 5:24 PM1 replyview on HN

You're not providing any explanation for why I wouldn't trust OP on DNSSEC. And the FUD is pretty reasonable if you've had a lot of experience setting up certificate chains, because the chain of trust can fail for a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with your certificate and are sometimes outside of your control. It would really suck to turn it on and have some 3rd-party provider not implement a feature you're relying on for your DNSSEC implementation and then suddenly it doesn't work and nobody can resolve your website anymore. I've had a lot of wonky experiences with different features in EG X.509 that I've come to really mistrust CA-based systems that I'm not in control of. When you get down to interoperability between different software implementations it gets even rougher.


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tptacekyesterday at 5:26 PM

Which is exactly what happened to Slack, and took them offline for most of a business day for a huge fraction of their customers. This is such a big problem that there's actually a subsidiary DNSSEC protocol (DNSSEC NTA's) that addresses it: tactically disabling DNSSEC at major resolvers for the inevitable cases where something breaks.

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