Responses from DNS servers come with various useful and informativeflags. Since I just looked them up while figuring out just what wasgoing on with a peculiar nameserver , I'm goingto write it down for my future reference.

This is one of those interesting little DNS glitches:

• the nameservers for the pk country domain say that gem.net.pk lists asnameservers sooraj.gem.net.pk and chand.gem.net.pk.
• if you ask sooraj what gem.net.pk's nameservers are, it gives you anon-authoritative reply saying that they are sooraj, chand, andns1.gem.net.pk.
• ns1.gem.net.pk doesn't respond.
• if you ask

Given my earlier entry that talked about OpenID's limitations , one might wonder what it's good for. There's anumber of good uses for it that I can think of:

• it's a better signature than just asking people to leave their nameor their website, in that it's harder for other people to forge andit does more to tell readers who they are.

• an OpenID identity makes a better password than yet another pieceof text that both you and the user have to keep