DNS contamination

Thu Jan 23 23:46:02 UTC 1997

> Ignoring additional records works pretty well for me.

This is harder than it looks.  Sometimes the glue A RRs are the only ones
you can get -- you need them in order to ask questions in the domain they
are in, so without them you have infinite regress.

We are planning to store these glue A RRs as query-temporary data shortly,
such that they can be used to try to refetch themselves but will never be
returned as answers to any other query.

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