[dns-wg] Re: [db-wg] Proposal to change the syntax of "nserver:" attribute

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!

-- 
Katie Petrusha
RIPE NCC