mail.yahoo.com, "missing A records" and squid proxy

Fri Mar 9 21:39:50 UTC 2001

[ On Friday, March 9, 2001 at 14:36:26 (-0500), Shawn McMahon wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: mail.yahoo.com, "missing A records" and squid proxy
> 
> Possibly.  According to the RFCs that's a perfectly valid configuration,
> but according to some pedantic anal retentives (hi, Greg!) it's not.

Well, you don't have to be much of a PAR to find a problem with this:

$ host -r -Z -t ns yahoo.akadns.net  za.akadns.net
yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      ze.akadns.net.
yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zk.akadns.net.
 !!! yahoo.akadns.net NS host zk.akadns.net does not exist
yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zh.akadns.net.
yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zj.akadns.net.
 !!! yahoo.akadns.net NS host zj.akadns.net does not exist
yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zb.akadns.net.
yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zi.akadns.net.
 !!! yahoo.akadns.net NS host zi.akadns.net does not exist
yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zg.akadns.net.
yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zf.akadns.net.
yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zc.akadns.net.
yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zd.akadns.net.
yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zl.akadns.net.
 !!! yahoo.akadns.net NS host zl.akadns.net does not exist
yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      za.akadns.net.

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