steve@xxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Atkins) writes: > On Sep 6, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: >> Now that the DNS is back (thanks!), I thought I'd ask why the ra bit >> is set on the responses. Are those servers providing recursion to >> the whole Net? (They seem to be.) If so, that's a Bad Thing. > > There's not anything like universal agreement on whether that's a > bad thing, or not. I'll leave that to others... > Also the servers are volunteer provided, so it's not really anyones > business other than the server owners. If you are fine with people casting arbitrary aspersions against the users of PostgreSQL, then perhaps so. I wouldn't expect any self-respecting project that prides itself on reliability would be willing to live with this, though... -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="acm.org" in name ^ "@" ^ tld;; http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/linuxdistributions.html 'Typos in FINNEGANS WAKE? How could you tell?' -- Kim Stanley Robinson
