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

[Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>]

* jbates () 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.