[dns-operations] Update: Problem in Costa Rica 14 Sept.

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 09:35:46AM -0400,
 Warren Kumari <warren at kumari.net> wrote 
 a message of 43 lines which said:

> There was a really well known zone (root? .arpa? something) that had
> something exactly like that at the end of the zone, and I seem to
> remember it was not a TXT record (maybe an HINFO?).

The root. And it was a TXT for the name
vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record.root:

VRSN-END-OF-ZONE-MARKER-DUMMY-RECORD.root. TXT plenus

It disappeared during the great reorganisation of the root zone on
2010-07-16.

There have been a lot of fuss about it
<http://www.circleid.com/posts/where_did_the_root_top_level_domain_come_from/>
(it was a time where ICANN was claiming that adding even one TLD to
the root could destroy the whole known world).