It's not always DNS (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

This week we’re talking about DNS with Paul Vixie — Paul is well known for his contributions to DNS and agrees with Adam on having a “love/hate relationship with DNS.” We discuss the limitations of current DNS technologies and the need for revisions to support future internet scale, the challenges in doing that. Paul shares insights on the future of the internet and how he’d reinvent DNS if given the opportunity. We even discuss the cultural idiom “It’s always DNS,” and the shift to using DNS resolvers like OpenDNS, Google’s 8.8.8.8 and Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1. Buckle up, this is a good one.

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Featuring:

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Show Notes:

• Paul Vixie on Wikipedia
• Changelog Interviews: #574: Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:01:27)

http://sentry.io/events/launch-week/

3. Welcome Paul Vixie (00:05:11)

4. Internet's growing pains (00:08:15)

5. Do we need a new internet? (00:15:30)

6. Reinventing DNS (00:21:56)

7. Who pays to progress the internet? (00:27:51)

8. Sponsor: CIQ / Rocky Linux (00:30:41)

https://ciq.com/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=changelog

9. Upgrading feasability (00:34:31)

10. Pushing hardware changes (00:40:33)

11. Cool uses and abuses of DNS (00:50:37)

12. Sponsor: imgproxy (00:59:36)

https://imgproxy.net/

13. It's always DNS (01:03:04)

14. Paul's resolvers of choice (01:12:48)

15. How to run your own resolver (01:14:14)

16. Origin of DNS (01:17:47)

17. Who should run a personal DNS? (01:20:26)

18. Benefits of running your own DNS (01:23:22)

19. What keeps Paul going? (01:26:14)

20. It's been fun! (01:29:41)

21. Join ~> changelog.com/community (01:30:08)

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