[dns-wg] Re: [db-wg] Proposal to change the syntax of "nserver:" attribute
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Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet
Woeber at CC.UniVie.ac.at
Mon May 15 13:30:03 CEST 2006
I presume it was copied form the DB Ref Man, which should be update to reflect relality. :-) I really appreciate the fact that the software accepts the trailing "." for an FQDN. Wilfried. Katie Petrusha wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:10:06AM +0200, Pim van Pelt wrote: > > Dear Pim, > > >>One thing caught my eye: >> >> >>>[domain_name] is the fully qualified DNS name of the name server without a >>>trailing "." >> >>Considering 'bfib.ipng.nl' and 'bfib.ipng.nl.' end up pointing to the same >>hostname (the latter doing a somewhat better job), I don't understand >>why you would want to specify '... without the trailing "."'. I >>sometimes bump into this in other (related) areas such as looking up >>"*.in-addr.arpa.". It was discussed some time ago and IIRC the outcome >>was that the software is easily modified to accept this trailing dot. >>I'd prefer to see it that way. > > > You're right. This is rather a typo :( > The names are accepted both with and without trailing dot now; > it will stay that way. Thanks for noticing this! >
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