Fwd: The Root has got an A record

Mon Oct 10 15:51:54 UTC 2005

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Peter Dambier wrote:

> See with your own eyes:
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> -t any . @a.public-root.net
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18588
> ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 15, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;.                              IN      ANY
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> .                       172800  IN      SOA     a.public-root.net.
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> hostmaster.public-root.net.\
>                                                2005101006 43200 3600 1209600 
> 14400
> .                       172800  IN      A       57.67.193.188

Who cares?  Please stop wasting NANOG bandwidth that could be better used 
debating peering/depeering with gibberish about fringe DNS systems.

> Report this to NANOG and the IETF.  Make sure you send them a copy of my
> response and the headers of this message.  I am holding UNIDT personally
> responsible for this technical nightmare.

Make sure to also report when pigs fly and the aliens decide to publicly 
make contact.

Apologies to anyone already .procmailrc'ing Peter to /dev/null for 
sneaking this into your inbox.

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