On Jan 19 2009, Joe Baptista wrote:
So a little more testing using firefox as an application gives us some
interesting results. Using the .TM TLD I entered http://tm/ into my
browsers. It did not work. Firefox replaced http://tm/ with
http://www.tm.com/ - which is not the web site I wanted to reach.
However - if we qualify the TLD by adding a "." to the end, i.e.
http://tm./it does work under firefox and I get connected to the
correct site.
This depends on the behavior of your local resolver, and probably
on how Firefox is configured as well. http://tm/ works fine for me.
The same applies to ping. If we just use TM we get this result:
bapti...@baptista-laptop:/tmp/test.temp$ ping tm
ping: unknown host tm
however if we add the "." to the end of TM - it works,
$ /usr/sbin/ping tm
tm is alive
(and yes, that really is 193.223.78.213 it is pinging, not a local
tm.[some-domain]).
Like I said - not recommended - but it does work - sort of.
Why does this remind me of the chap whose vanity e-mail address was "s...@tc"?
(Yes, that was the complete fully expanded address.)
--
Chris Thompson
Email: c...@cam.ac.uk
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