On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Eli Heady <eli.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since learning what 'fully qualified' really means, I've assumed this falls > into an area of arcane trivia that many, if not most of the applications > built atop the DNS probably don't implement correctly. Nearly every time > this topic comes up at work it's due to a junior admin publishing > something.tld.something.tld in our DNS, and I mostly get blank stares when I > talk about the trailing dot and implied root in what's commonly thought to > be FQDN's. > > At the same time, $WORK website fails to load when requested with the > trailing dot (also running Apache). Maybe time to address that. > > A couple other funny examples: > > Apache: https://www.cio.gov./ > Nginx (cloudflare): https://www.ietf.org./ >
Another thing someone related is the problem of fullstops and other punctuation. I.e., checkout this link: https://www.google.com/intl/en/about, and this site: http://www.yahoo.com. -Jim P. _______________________________________________ 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
