The term is quite over used in my opinion, it is very often used in hyperbole. Whether it is in terms of popularity and driving traffic to a website or a threat said to break the Internet, it doesn’t seem to live up to the meaning of the term.

  • @[email protected]
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    8 months ago

    Or the root zone can’t get into their safe for the root certificate again (or can’t meet up due to pandemic again)

    • slazer2au
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      Root zone for DNS is pretty reliable have you seen how many of those there are around the world? https://root-servers.org/

      Root certs are generally offline for security reasons and everything is generated via the intermediate certs.