Primary server in SOA (was Re: What does this Mean????)

[Cricket Liu]

Don Stokes wrote:
> I can't say I like listing a loopback address as the IP of the MNAME,
> but the alternative for a TLD server is attracting squillions of
> updates from broken Microsoft clients.  <sigh>

Yeah, that's a real problem.  If you're interested, there's a CAIDA paper
that mentions the phenomenon:  

http://www.caida.org/outreach/presentations/dns0209/index.html

cricket

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