Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs

[Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>]

In message <24339470.6878.1361551954109.JavaMail.root () benjamin baylink com>, Ja
y Ashworth writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Andrews" <marka () 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.

It wouldn't bother me.  I use sane resolvers and don't use partially qualified
names.
 
> Or *course* the trailing dot matters, even if only due to the behavior
> of DNS resolvers.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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