----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Reichert" <[email protected]>
> > > More formally: "is a host/domain name with a trailing dot > > > *actually a legal host name? > > > > No. See RFC 952 > > In the case of URIs, RFC 2396 (circa 1998) seems to allow for it, > if I read the ABNF for 'hostname' right in section 3.2.2. > > But that's the only place I see it. Concur, unhappily. And at this point, we are *definitely* out-of-scope for NANOG. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
