[161037] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Feb 22 19:10:56 2013
In-Reply-To: <20130222225623.GG99258@numachi.com>
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:10:31 -0500
To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Well, the followup question is: are absolute host names "real", or /solely/ hint to the local resolver not to search-list?
I will reread 1035 later tonight ...
Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 05:46:27PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> So, should browsers send absolute host names in http/1.1 requests,
>and shouldn't servers strip the trailing dot if they get one?
>>
>> I vote No and Yes, resp.
>
>The first question is tough, only because of the depth of the
>exatblished convention. I think I would argue 'Yes', as to remove
>ambiguity, but that naively makes a lot of legacy software trip in
>unexpected ways.
>
>As for the second question, I generally disapprove of throwing away
>information, so I say No.
>
>Clearly I like to make trouble for myself. :)
>
>--
>Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
>BSD admin/developer at large
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