steve@blighty.com (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...
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