Setting up a Root name server

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Tue Sep 7 16:13:23 UTC 1999


In article <199909071535.LAA14812 at fw1-a.osis.gov>,
Joseph S D Yao  <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov> wrote:
>At the beginning of the weekend, and what is starting to look like an
>incredibly long thread, Michael Voigt grumbled:
>
>> I am not wrong, the wording was wrong. I meant they do not do recursion.
>> (I actually meant to say the do not give a recursive response)
>> 
>> Michael
>
>You know, the wording is ALL YOU GET in e-mail [or e-news, I forget
>which interface you use].  I may have some idea of the personalities or
>knowledge of people like David, Paul, Cricket, Barry, Mark, Michael,
>Michael, et al.; but we all make mistakes in either fact or phrasing.
>And the phrasing is all that comes across.  It is a moot point whether
>or not you knew the facts correctly.  What we all read was not correct.
>
>[And what's a recursive response?  That's a new one on me.  ;-) ]

Try to apply some common sense.  A recursive response is obviously a
response that was provided by performing a recursive query.

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