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

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!
>