> (...) but quite important to the people maintaining the root servers who see a significant percentage of all queries being for bogus domains that don't exist.
I get the boys out rule sentiment, but isn't resolving domain names, even those that don't exist, the whole purpose of root servers?
I mean, your suggestion reads like asking not to type URLs wrong because a significant percentage of requests are 404s.
I'm not sure you're getting it. You're complaining about a scenario where there's a misconfiguration error that's totally unintentional. No one is intentionally driving traffic to domains that don't exist. In fact, of said traffic hits the root servers, odds are that the system is effectively down and not receiving the traffic it's expected to receive, and a few developers are trying to figure out what's broken.
I get the boys out rule sentiment, but isn't resolving domain names, even those that don't exist, the whole purpose of root servers?
I mean, your suggestion reads like asking not to type URLs wrong because a significant percentage of requests are 404s.