X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E18969FB2CE for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 14:48:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02705-08-2 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:48:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from main2.mycybernet.net (main2.mycybernet.net [209.222.63.140]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9402B9FB2BD for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 14:48:33 -0300 (ADT) Received: from 227-54-222-209.mycybernet.net ([209.222.54.227] helo=phlogiston.dydns.org) by main2.mycybernet.net with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GL1kc-0003PR-Id for pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:03:50 -0400 Received: by phlogiston.dydns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7EF923FAF; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 13:48:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 13:48:27 -0400 From: Andrew Sullivan To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: On DNS for postgresql.org Message-ID: <20060906174827.GM362@phlogiston.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Mailing-List: pgsql-general User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.135 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200609/31 X-Sequence-Number: 10609 I posted this to -general, but more clueful people suggested I should truck myself over here. So here I am: 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. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@crankycanuck.ca If they don't do anything, we don't need their acronym. --Josh Hamilton, on the US FEMA