On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 03:02:48PM -0800, Joe Touch <touch@xxxxxxx> wrote a message of 16 lines which said: > By popular request, I've restored the DNS calculator function as an > operational service. Why no delegation from postel.org? It is not really DNS if you have to use an explicit name server. % dig @128.9.160.161 ANY 3.4.add.calc.postel.org ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @128.9.160.161 ANY 3.4.add.calc.postel.org ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 30695 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;3.4.add.calc.postel.org. IN ANY ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: postel.org. 15 IN SOA dns.postel.org. touch.postel.org. 2013021402 60 30 1209600 15 ;; Query time: 195 msec ;; SERVER: 128.9.160.161#53(128.9.160.161) ;; WHEN: Fri Feb 15 09:19:33 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98