I would think so...it would also prevent soft referencing of alternate
domain names because it would force DNS to search the root domain (.)
-Scot Mc Pherson
-N2UPA
-RF Engineer
-ClearAccess Communications
-http://www.clearaccess.net
-maito:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Touch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 4:12 PM
To: John C Klensin
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Security and suffixes (Re: Cite on DNS-related traffic.)
John C Klensin wrote:
>
> --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).
It's not a hack - it's a fully qualified domain name.
Wouldn't this be a fine way to flag the bug in those apps?
Joe
