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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by roblabla on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:40AM (#19172279)
It was rude because the DNSOP WG mailing list (to which this email was sent to) isn't a google support forum. https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dnsop/about/ outlines what the DNS WG is about. Ranting about how Google's devices are terrible isn't an appropriate use of this communication channel.
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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by Aiphie3E on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:24PM (#19172766)
I assume he does not want support. He wants to highlight a threat to DNS choice.
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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by belorn on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:12PM (#19175204)
The threat is actually more at IANA than DNS. I would not be surprised if ISP supplied routers would start MITM quad ip DNS servers in order to retake the data and control. A lot of harm will happen if that became standard practice.

DNSSEC do not protect against this.

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by lukeschlather on Friday February 15, 2019 @10:32PM (#19176881)
Would that break DNSSEC?
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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by belorn on Saturday February 16, 2019 @11:32AM (#19179354)
No. DNSSEC makes sure that the record is correct as given by the authoritative DNS server. It does not specify or control who resolved the name and for whom.
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