The trailing dot exists in *every* domain name, just nobody bothers to write it in web urls or email address' because.....I guess everyone just assumes its there. DNS needs it however (I don't really know why, it just does, I guess domains can't hide their true identity in this space) and this is reflected in the response you are seeing in Safari.
Rob On 28/01/2009, at 5:56 PM, Gaspard Bucher wrote: > Cool, great news. > > I have a (stupid) question regarding ".local" domain. I tried a setup > to advertise a vhost called "zena.local" with avahi: > "/etc/avahi/services/zena.service" > <service-group> > <name>zena playground</name> > <service> > <type>_http._tcp</type> > <port>80</port> > </service> > </service-group> > > But the Bonjour browser in Safari would recognize it as "zena.local." > (trailing dot). Why is that so ? "zena.local" would still be resolved > correctly, but the entry for the vhost is clearly not the same if you > call "zena.local" or "zena.local.". > > > > Gaspard > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Lennart Poettering > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Heya! >> >> I just did another release of mod_dnssd 0.6. >> >> http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/mod_dnssd/ >> >> The next version of gnome-user-share will depend on this new version, >> so make sure to prepare packages! >> >> Lennart >> >> -- >> Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. >> lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 >> http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 >> _______________________________________________ >> avahi mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi >> > _______________________________________________ > avahi mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
