I am sorry if you feel annoyed by this, but c.public-root.com, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, IP 68.255.182.111 e.public-root.com, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, IP 216.138.219.83 f.public-root.com, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, IP 66.15.237.185 g.public-root.com, Chicago, Illinois, USA, IP 199.5.157.131 h.public-root.com, Des Moines, Iowa, USA, 64.198.89.245 operate in north america, in your network. So do their customers. It is you who will be annoyed if anything goes wrong because of this misbehaviour. I do not recommend using the public-root right now. I do warn because of obvious technical problems. I dont know what happens if '.' suddenly has a valid ip address. I have not written windows. I dont know what Bill Gates does. My linux did complain. That is how I did find it in the first place. And I know for shure '.' was not meant to have an ip address. What can go wrong will go wrong. I have seen enough queries for '.local' and for 'localhost' on the root-servers. Jon Lewis wrote:
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.
Better /dev/null the rest of nanog too because I am afraid there will raise issues because of this. So, if you really dont care ...
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