The state of DNS security records 2017
These days there are quite a few security initiatives that depends upon DNS, and to keep those secure you need to implement DNSSEC. Many people across the board from Google, to security advisory firms are encouraging the uptake of these initiatives many of which are getting quite long in the tooth (SPF is over a decade old). However, I’ve for a long time thought that many of these “enhancements” are far from trivial to implement, if you’re a small operator it’s a lot of work for small gains, and if your large then unless you can automate it it’s just not viable. Looking at implementing many of these enhancements myself, and the work involved I started wondering what deployment looked like amongst other people, so I thought I’d do a quick survey and on the whole it’s not a pretty sight. From my far from scientific survey the only thing… Continue reading