Root Server Operators (Re: What *are* they smoking?)

Niels Bakker niels=nanog at bakker.net
Thu Sep 18 14:45:40 UTC 2003


* jbates at 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.



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