Problem with root servers.

[Daniel Karrenberg <]

  > e07@localhost (Eric Wassenaar) writes:
  > For a more robust tool, I recommend contrib/host from
  > the BIND distribution (for the latest version fetch
  > ftp://ftp.nikhef.nl/pub/network/host.tar.Z)
  > 
  > -- Eric Wassenaar

Now why would Eric recommend that ?
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