Dan,
I don't always agree with you but I will on this one.
Mark
> Servers (as opposed to caches) should not have root information unless
> they are root servers. Caches will never ask for the information; and
> there's a cost to copying the information and worrying about keeping it
> up to date. These are not new observations.
>
> Unfortunately, the .fr administrators won't delegate to servers that
> don't have the current root NS records and corresponding A records.
>
> This is not an isolated example. They also insist on TCP service even if
> you don't have any big records, and 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa PTR records,
> and various other server behaviors that are not relevant to DNS service.
>
> Where does this disease come from? Even if the .fr administrators are
> confused about how DNS works, why do they care what other servers do?
>
> ---Dan
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