Wolf wolf (was: Re: OT: Fwd: The Root has got an A record)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <die91d$2gss$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Ketil Froyn <ketil at froyn.name> 
wrote:

> Great reason not to use the public-root.net servers, isn't it?
> 
> _THE_ root-servers don't have an A-record. _A_ root-server does, but 
> it's an unofficial one. You should have made it clearer that this is on 
> an alternate root.

Even if it were the official root servers, what's the problem?  Under 
what circumstances would an application try to get the address of the 
root, and why would it depend on getting an empty answer?

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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