"Looking around in 2021, it turns out that the complexity associated with running DNS means it has effectively slowly migrated to a smaller number of outsourced To put it bluntly, it's more hassle than it's worth to run your own servers when infrastructure providers, despite strong decentralization support in the protocol."
The age-old elements of the protocol are still very reliable. I cannot agree with your conclusion that "its more hassle than its worth" to run DNS servers. Depends on the use case. DNS isn't just for companies. I use run DNS at home and I could not live without it. A third party provider would/could never offer the customised, creative solutions I created myself.
There is a learning curve but I think it is less than, say, email service. Maybe not. You can run DNS without third parties and IMO you should. I think the stuff it allows you to do is well worth it. I think the reason I spent the time to learn DNS is that it is very fast. Instant, short text response. Much more pleasant than what websites have turned into.
The old school is alive and well, but it does not need to hype anything, so what you see and hear is people hype-ing crap, not the good stuff that old, unsexy is much more reliable.
All the third party DNS services could go down and it would not affect me much at all, because I have so much stored DNS data. Most of the DNs traffic I produce never leaves the loopback. Makes the UX much faster.
The age-old elements of the protocol are still very reliable. I cannot agree with your conclusion that "its more hassle than its worth" to run DNS servers. Depends on the use case. DNS isn't just for companies. I use run DNS at home and I could not live without it. A third party provider would/could never offer the customised, creative solutions I created myself.
There is a learning curve but I think it is less than, say, email service. Maybe not. You can run DNS without third parties and IMO you should. I think the stuff it allows you to do is well worth it. I think the reason I spent the time to learn DNS is that it is very fast. Instant, short text response. Much more pleasant than what websites have turned into.
The old school is alive and well, but it does not need to hype anything, so what you see and hear is people hype-ing crap, not the good stuff that old, unsexy is much more reliable.
All the third party DNS services could go down and it would not affect me much at all, because I have so much stored DNS data. Most of the DNs traffic I produce never leaves the loopback. Makes the UX much faster.