Re: Security and suffixes (Re: Cite on DNS-related traffic.)

[Joe Touch]

John C Klensin wrote:
> 
> --On Friday, June 02, 2000 10:56 AM -0700 Joe Touch
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > The use of the trailing dot (www.netscape.com.) remains
> > a useful way to force the resolver to avoid suffix extensions.
> 
> And a useful way to induce massive confusion, since many
> applications do not recognize the hack and won't pass it to a
> resolver (which, of course, may or may not recognize it either).

It's not a hack - it's a fully qualified domain name.
Wouldn't this be a fine way to flag the bug in those apps?

Joe