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[dns-wg] Re: [db-wg] Proposal to change the syntax of "nserver:" attribute
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Peter Dambier
peter at peter-dambier.de
Mon May 15 10:57:24 CEST 2006
Pim van Pelt wrote: > Hoi Katie, > > > 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. > > Thanks for your efforts, > > Hi Pim, the trailing '.' has a very spezial meaning. In hostnames it is simply not allowed. So in /etc/hosts you will not find it. If you ask 'name' then /etc/hosts will be the first to answer. If you ask 'name.' then only DNS will answer. Some browsers and all mailer do this. For DNS (the resolver lib) that '.' means this is an FDN. Dont add the search path to it. That is very importan for the Bind DNS server data files. Regards Peter and Karin Dambier -- Peter and Karin Dambier The Public-Root Consortium Graeffstrasse 14 D-64646 Heppenheim +49(6252)671-788 (Telekom) +49(179)108-3978 (O2 Genion) +49(6252)750-308 (VoIP: sipgate.de) mail: peter at peter-dambier.de mail: peter at echnaton.serveftp.com http://iason.site.voila.fr/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/iason/
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