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by vaccinator 2026 days ago
Maybe we don't need encrypted DNS for each request... instead we should all have a securely downloaded mirror of all DNS records so that individual requests don't go to third parties...
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There was a time when we all passed the hosts file around.

That became unworkable about three and a half decades or so ago, however, and the DNS was created to solve that problem.

It can't be more then a gigabyte... I guess DNS was ahead of its time when it comes to clouds... but clouds are killing the internet as we used to know it
"According to the latest data from Verisign, there were 359.8 million registered domain names at the close of 2019’s third quarter." - https://makeawebsitehub.com/how-many-domains-are-there/

Assume each zonefile is 1Kb that could be 350GB of data, right?