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RE: What software breaks because of this DNS feature?
From: "Rob Mayoff" <mayoff () dqd com>
Date: 14 Oct 2003 13:17:37 -0500
+---------- On Oct 14, Michael Wojcik said: | As I read the grammar given by RFC 1034 (Domain Names) in 3.5, The grammar specifies only the "preferred name syntax". Section 3.1 clearly allows dot-terminated names: When a user needs to type a domain name, the length of each label is omitted and the labels are separated by dots ("."). Since a complete domain name ends with the root label, this leads to a printed form which ends in a dot. We use this property to distinguish between: - a character string which represents a complete domain name (often called "absolute"). For example, "poneria.ISI.EDU."
Current thread:
- What software breaks because of this DNS feature? Richard M. Smith (Oct 14)
- Re: What software breaks because of this DNS feature? Michael Sierchio (Oct 14)
- Re: What software breaks because of this DNS feature? Kevin George (Oct 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: What software breaks because of this DNS feature? Michael Wojcik (Oct 14)
- RE: What software breaks because of this DNS feature? Rob Mayoff (Oct 14)
- Re: What software breaks because of this DNS feature? Michael Sierchio (Oct 14)