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by tptacek 1229 days ago
No, it's not! The problem here is end-users being forced to trust their upstream DNS caches. DNSSEC doesn't change that! It's a server-to-server protocol, so the same NXDOMAIN interception problem exists --- the intercepting DNS server just sets the AD bit in the header. You can run DNSSEC directly from an end-system, bypassing caches --- but then, relieving load on the roots (a non-issue, but still) is right out the window.