2 problems: "temporary name lookup failures" & updating TLD servers

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 11:32:25PM -0700,
 Linda W. <bind at tlinx.org> wrote 
 a message of 45 lines which said:

> I have b/c/e/g/n/o listed with their authoritative root servers 
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                       This means nothing. TLD have
				       authoritative name servers,
				       period.

> am now able to resolve gov addresses.

Wonderful: a lot of work to do something that any nameserver on the
planet does without hassles.

> Wouldn't you want name resolution to be generally as fast as
> possible?

I want the system to work. I pity your users.