[85445] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: The Root has got an A record
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter)
Mon Oct 10 12:25:26 2005
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From: abuse@cabal.org.uk (Peter)
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:21:12 +0000 (UTC)
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Janet Sullivan <ciscogeek@bgp4.net> wrote:
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> Having an A record for the root is one better than having an A
> record for, say, .edu. In other words, this shouldn't work:
The content at http://57.67.193.188/ made me wonder if they'd not in
fact put in a *wildcard* record in the root zone. It turns out that
they haven't, so there's still some more lack of DNS Clue that hasn't
yet been demonstrated.
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