On Nov 10, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Ted Lemon wrote:

> On Nov 10, 2010, at 9:36 PM, "Dave Thaler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> It is my understanding that if the string passed to a name resolver library
>> contains dots, no search list should be used.  (Reference: RFC 1535)
>> 
>> The Windows name resolver library does strictly adhere to this
>> (it never uses a search list with a string containing dots).
> 
> Ah, good to know.  In this case, if the behavior described in the current 
> draft is desired, it does need to be specified, since it differs from the 
> behavior specified in RFC 1535. However, I think the behavior described in 
> the draft is unnecessary, so maybe it's better to just get rid of it.
> 



Fully agreed. Let's keep this thing simple, just as any other FQDN option ever 
defined for DHCP.

Chair hat on:  authors, please update the draft to remove any text that will 
make this option differ from regular FQDN treatment and publish on the normal 
ID stream.

   - Alain.
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