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Re: What software breaks because of this DNS feature?


From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu () tenebras com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:13:26 -0700

Richard M. Smith wrote:

According to RFC1034, "cnn.com" and "cnn.com." should be the same domain
names.  However, it doesn't appear that programmers always understand that
trailing dots can be added to domain names.
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...
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However, Internet Explorer considers these two domain names to be different

Is it IE or is it the Windows resolver?


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