Here is what browsing to a domain by modifying the hosts file looks like when using DNSSEC

While performing some testing / transferring of a site from one server to another I added an entry in the hosts file to bypass DNS. The plugin was intelligent enough to detect the anomaly and provided a red DNSSEC symbol.

The DNSSEC browser plugin for Firefox was provided by:

CZ.NIC Labs  and is available at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/dnssec-validator/

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