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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 06-May-2026 06:26:17 JST Rich Felker

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   • Leah Neukirchen
   • LisPi

   @lispi314 @leah It's not insufficiently redundant. It's working as intended, failing-closed. Somebody installed a wrong key that's not trusted, and so we're rejecting the bogus records signed by it.

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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 06-May-2026 06:26:18 JST LisPi

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     • Leah Neukirchen
     @leah That mostly means it's insufficiently redundant.
     
     In my view, it's more of a decentralized network, since outside of caching resolvers the data is replicated basically nowhere.
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     Leah Neukirchen (leah@blahaj.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-May-2026 06:26:19 JST Leah Neukirchen

     DNS is a distributed system in the sense of Lamport: one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.