Re:Make sure you are up to date! (Score 1)

Assuming in future when you try to resolve ftp.internic.net, you get the result via real root name servers and thus you can trust ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.cache by itself. DNS works at the thin edge of trust, as the article tried to emphasize. Root name servers are the pivots for the Internet infrastructure, that we don't realize in our day to day activities. Any damage there is always catastrophic that had been proven in the past. The article emphasized what could go wrong, without knowing you and me for months.