The Internet didn't evolve in the way its designers expected. Early mistakes and errors required terrible remediation. As an example, look at the difficulty involved in running a service like e-mail or DNS. E-mail requires all sorts of things to interoperate well, including SPF, DKIM, SSL, DNSBL's, etc., etc., and it is a complicated service to run self-hosted. DNS is only somewhat better, with the complexity of DNSSEC and other recent developments making for more difficulties in
On Saturday, 30 May, 2020 13:18, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote: maintaining
self-hosted services.
I've been running my own DNS and e-mail for more than a quarter century. Contrary to your proposition it hasn't gotten much more complicated over than time. -- The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume.