On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, Edward Lewis wrote: > In Safari, http://dk./ "worked" while http://dk/ didn't.
Yes. I was going to point that out: the rightmost dot. Traditionally without the rightmost dot is a "resource" or "relative" (or whatever you want to call it) and the rightmost dot makes it a /fully/ qualified domain name. (This concept should be familiar to anyone who's edited a zonefile, although ironically it's not easy to find an RFC which defines the FQDN.) The laziness is in how we all talk about "root" name servers: I never hear anybody say "dot" name servers. (1034 refers to the 'root "."') Or stating it another way: demeter:~ demeter$ dig . ns ; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R4-P3 <<>> . ns ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22941 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 13 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;. IN NS ;; ANSWER SECTION: . 283 IN NS d.root-servers.net. . 283 IN NS m.root-servers.net. . 283 IN NS h.root-servers.net. . 283 IN NS g.root-servers.net. . 283 IN NS l.root-servers.net. . 283 IN NS b.root-servers.net. . 283 IN NS i.root-servers.net. . 283 IN NS f.root-servers.net. . 283 IN NS j.root-servers.net. . 283 IN NS e.root-servers.net. . 283 IN NS c.root-servers.net. . 283 IN NS a.root-servers.net. . 283 IN NS k.root-servers.net. I don't see "root" in there anywhere. What I see is ".". http://www.google.com./ works fine for me. ;-) -- Fred Morris _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
