Re: Security and suffixes (Re: Cite on DNS-related traffic.)

[John C Klensin]

--On Friday, June 02, 2000 10:56 AM -0700 Joe Touch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The use of the trailing dot (www.netscape.com.) remains
> a useful way to force the resolver to avoid suffix extensions.

And a useful way to induce massive confusion, since many
applications do not recognize the hack and won't pass it to a
resolver (which, of course, may or may not recognize it either).

   john