Should host/domain names travel over the internet with a trailing dot?
Jay Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Mon Feb 25 23:24:15 UTC 2013
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Reichert" <reichert at numachi.com>
> > > 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,
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