[62444] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Root Server Operators (Re: What *are* they smoking?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Thu Sep 18 10:49:53 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:45:40 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* jbates@brightok.net (Jack Bates) [Thu 18 Sep 2003, 16:41 CEST]:
> After all, is this the Internet or just the World Wide Web? wildcards at
> the roots are catering solely to the web and disrupting other protocols
> which require NXDOMAIN.
Wildcards anywhere are problematic. I've yet to encounter a situation
where they didn't cause extreme operational brokenness.
-- Niels.
