[105746] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Mon Jun 30 13:47:56 2008
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:47:30 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
In-Reply-To: <63ac96a50806300036u5c1a9bbdq4efb8e4879650434@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Matthew Petach wrote:
>
> Or should I always ensure that resolvers reach my domain explicitly by
> including the trailing "dot" in all uses, so that my email would be
> given out as "myname@smtp." in the hopes that everyone would correctly
> remember to add the "." at the end when entering my email address into
> their mail clients?
Trailing dots in email addresses are a syntax error.
> In the past, this wasn't really a concern, as you never had a case of a
> single entity owning an entire TLD, and as such you'd never see A or MX
> records showing up for an entire TLD.
Not true. There have been TLDs with MX and A records for a long time,
though they tend to be badly set up, and many MTAs treat single-component
domains specially such that email to these TLDs will often not work.
http://fanf.livejournal.com/72486.html
Tony.
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