[85438] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: The Root has got an A record
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Janet Sullivan)
Mon Oct 10 11:27:40 2005
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:25:04 -0700
From: Janet Sullivan <ciscogeek@bgp4.net>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Dambier <peter@peter-dambier.de>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0510101610160.10796-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> i'm reading looking for your explanation but there isnt one.
>
> and the A record is for what?
The A record is for "." (the DNS root). Or at least "." as public-root
sees it.
> anyway its on a private dns server, the internet roots are fine so why worry? :)
It might impact people who have drunk enough of the public-root kool-aid
to be using it instead of the ICANN root. For everyone else, its just
more evidence that alternative roots are usually a bad idea. ;-)
