In message <caf4+negchve6pchj-pkckc_7p-4yxqbvco3dqzv1ddiaptf...@mail.gmail.com> , Donald Eastlake writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Mark Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > In message <[email protected]>, Matthew = > Pounse > > tt writes: > >> > >> On 2011/10/22, at 15:21, Keith Moore wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > >> > > >> >> 1. I think we're all in agreement that dot-terminated names (e.g., > >> >> example.) should not be subject to search lists. I personally don't have > >> >> any problems with any document mentioning that this is the expected > >> >> behavior. > >> > > >> > agree. however there are standard protocols for which a trailing dot in > >> > a > >> domain name is a syntax error. > >> > >> Any protocol that makes a standard FQDN a syntax error is itself in erro= > r. N > >> ot to say that these don't exist, but if people are writing protocols th= > at ca > >> n't deal with a properly formatted FQDN they need to stop. Now. > > > > Except it isn't a standard hostname. Periods *seperate* labels in > > hostnames RFC 952. They DO NOT appear at the end of hostnames. > > Isn't there the the root label, which is the null string, at the end > of all FQDNs, so the period at the end does separate labels?
Not in hostnames. See RFC 952. > Thanks, > Donald > ============================== > Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell) > 155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA > [email protected] -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [email protected] _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
