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Re: [DNSOP] Re: AS112 for TLDs

Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org> Wed, 05 December 2007 15:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Re: AS112 for TLDs
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From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
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baptista@publicroot.org (Joe Baptista) writes:

> No it can't be done with BIND.  Very lame.  It would be a big asset to 
> root technology of the entire "*." wildcard TLD label could be pointed 
> to AS112.  AS112 is truly the blackhole of this universe we call the 
> internet.  AS112 - the internet garbage can.
> 
> I support using AS112 for that.  Great way to reduce the error traffic 
> at root-servers.net.

wildcards can't be cname's or ns's.  (of the many important reasons why
the suggestion is terrible, that's the first/simplest that comes to mind.)
-- 
Paul Vixie

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