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

  • From: Niels Bakker
  • Date: Thu Sep 18 10:51:41 2003

* [email protected] (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.