On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:52:05 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: >> [1] If a hostname ends with a dot, it's fully qualified. > > Outside of BIND files, when do you ever see a name that actually ends > with a dot?
Whenever it is entered that way. This may be necessary on complex networks with local subdomains, i.e. where resolv.conf has "options ndots:2". E.g. "foo.it" might resolve to "foo.it.bar.edu" (in bar.edu's IT department's subdomain), requiring a trailing dot if you want the Italian site "foo.it". The canonical real-world example of this used to be foo.cs resolving to foo.cs.berkeley.edu (UCB Comp. Sci. department), but ever since .cs split into .cz and .sk it's no longer ambiguous. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
