Message-Id: <9310192350.AA05355@sun-co15.lut.ac.uk>
From: Jon Knight <J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Final edits - summary of outstanding points.
To: mitra@path.net (Mitra)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 0:50:39 BST
In-Reply-To: <CF5q2p.nF@pandora.sf.ca.us>; from "Mitra" at Oct 19, 93 6:30 pm
Recently Mitra said:
>
> 17) Do we allow trailing "." in FQDNs - I forget who took which side here?
>
I vote for allowing the trailing ``.'' in FQDNs in URLs. Although many
people drop the trailing dot in day-to-day usage, the _proper_ format of
a FQDN does have a trailing dot. This can also make DNS lookups
slightly faster and safer as the software knows not to attach any local
domains to it (there was a recent thread in one of the DNS or BIND
related mailing lists about an obscure security flaw with some BIND
versions when you present a domain name without a trailing dot).
And this won't break anyone's code; I tried tried X Mosaic 1.2 and it
seems quite happy with either format!
Jon
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