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> Mark Andrews wrote:
> >>>> It's nonsensical for an application to decide that relative names ar=
> e=20
> >>>> unacceptable, but to require users to input names as relative.
> >>> it's nonsensical for you to unilaterally declare that such names are =
>
> >>> relative, when well over two decades of practice indicates otherwise.=
>
> >>
> >> I didn't declare it; 1034 did.=20
> >=20
> > And RFC 1535 got resolvers to try search lists last if there
> > was a period in the name. This removed the need for final
> > periods for any legal fully qualified host name.
>
> First, 1535 is informational, so it doesn't get anyone to do anything=20
> per se. The SHOULD therein is nonbinding.
>
> Second, that document is very clear about applying to relative names,=20
> not FQDNs.
>
> Finally, "." is a legal FQDN. So is "a.". The lack of an internal "."=20
> means that the "more stringent mechanism..implemented in BIND 4.9.2"=20
> discussed in 1535 does not apply.
>
> I.e., 1535 describes an implementation decision to assume that:\
> <has internal "."> implies <is a FQDN>
>
> The converse does not follow, i.e.:
> <is a FQDN> does NOT imply <has an internal ".">
>
> > "hk" is not a legal fully qualified host name.
>
> Agreed. "hk.", however, is.
No, it is not a legal hostname.
RFC 952 explicitly excludes trailing periods.
"The last character must not be a minus sign or period."
> > Demanding that
> > applications support final dots to support uses that are outside
> > of the original design scope is nonsensical.
>
> What uses? Specifying that the trailing "." means FQDN is defined in the =
>
> DNS spec (1034). Apps that interpret names as DNS names need to follow=20
> that spec. Period (pun intended).
>
> Joe
>
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