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Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs
From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:20:57 -0500 (EST)
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From: "Joe Abley" <jabley () hopcount ca>
Actually, I think the problem is the confusion between a label string terminated in a dot (to indicate that no search domain should be appended) and a label string not so-terminated (which might mean that a search domain is attempted, depending on local configuration).
In fact, Joe, I think it's distinguishing your second case from "a label string which is intended to reference a rooted FQDN, but the user did not specify the trailing dot -- and yet still does not want a search path applied"... which is 99.9999% of the time outside of large corporate and college campuses, and only 99.9% of the time, otherwise. :-)
The terminology "root zone" or "root domain" to explain the trailing dot is misleading and unhelpful, I find.
No, what's *really* unhelpful and misleading is the people who say that it is the *dot* which specifies the name of the root, rather than the null labelstring which *follows* that dot (which is what it actually is, and I'll save everyone's stomach linings by not saying the words "alternate root" here. :-) Cheers, -- jr 'new intercalations on every message for authentication' a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
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- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs, (continued)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Brian Reichert (Feb 25)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jay Ashworth (Feb 25)
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- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Brian Reichert (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Andrew Sullivan (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Rich Kulawiec (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jay Ashworth (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Mark Andrews (Feb 23)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Joe Abley (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jay Ashworth (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Joe Abley (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jay Ashworth (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Joe Abley (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Andrew Sullivan (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Eric Brunner-Williams (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Andrew Sullivan (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Barry Shein (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Cutler James R (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jay Ashworth (Feb 22)
- Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs Jimmy Hess (Feb 22)