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Keith Moore wrote: | | | Ted Faber wrote: |> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 12:54:16PM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: |>> "hk." is not a syntactically valid hostname (RFC 952). |>> "hk." is not a syntactically valid mail domain. |>> Periods at the end are not legal. |>> |>> RFC 1035 has *nothing* to do with defining what is legal |>> as a hostname. |> |> Fair enough. |> By RFC952 standards "hk" is a perfectly fine hostname. |> |> By RFC1035 standards, if you look it or any other DNS name up using the |> DNS resolver, that resolver will treat the name as relative unless it |> ends with a dot. Arguing that hk is an unreliable hostname if you |> look it up as a relative pathname is pretty much the same as arguing |> that www.isi.deterlab.net is an unreliable hostname. Both of them are |> subject to the search path without that trailing dot. | | RFC1035 may recognize the trailing dot, but (for better or worse) many | applications do not recognize it, and some explicitly forbid it. RFC1043 defines the dot. The fact that some apps don't recognize it is a bug. Given its impact, let's not call it a feature or BCP. Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIc65GE5f5cImnZrsRApEwAKCBFc5Ss/pi7xbFpT8KOrt+35vQQACfYWBy 204MtY5DKH73CfaI4SEMbV4= =zH2v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
