Dig shows wrong ip

[Chris Thompson]

On Jul 28 2009, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:

>% dig +short a dns3.potomacnetworks.com @a.gtld-servers.net
>216.250.243.230
>
>As long as that host record exists, with an IP different from what
>your authoritative servers reply with, you are going to have problems,
>because queries will be answered by the GTLD servers and not your own
>authoritative servers.

This is the wretched "glue promoted to answer" bug (we can call it a
bug by now, surely?) which we are assured that the GTLD servers will
be cured of this year, next year, sometime, or ...

... well, they will have to fix it before they can roll out DNSSEC, 
won't they?

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk