On Thu, April 30, 2015 11:28, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

>
> There is no "trailing dot".  Postfix gets a name from getnameinfo()
> which it passes for forward checking to getaddrinfo().  Whether
> the C-library is doing any DNS under the covers is up to the C-
> library.  The name returned by getnameinfo() could have come from
> /etc/hosts, NIS, LDAP, ...
>

Thank you.  I now understand, somewhat. I think.

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