looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Feb 22 16:52:34 UTC 2013


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Andrews" <marka at isc.org>

> RFC 952 as modified by RFC 1123 describe the legal syntax of a
> hostname. There is no trailing period.

May someone create a "com" subdomain in a DNS domain you have to work in,
Mark.

Or *course* the trailing dot matters, even if only due to the behavior
of DNS resolvers.

Cheers,
-- jra
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