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

[Warren Kumari]

On Sep 27, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> 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).
> 

Yup, and Stephane wins the prize....

It this hadn't been answered I'd have suddenly woken up at 3AM shouting something useful like "plenus, I know, plenus!".... This would not have led to marital bliss...

W