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Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Sat Feb 23 08:38:56 2013

To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:52:34 CDT."
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Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:37:27 +1100
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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In message <24339470.6878.1361551954109.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>, Ja
y Ashworth writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Andrews" <marka@isc.org>
> 
> > RFC 952 as modified by RFC 1123 describe the legal syntax of a
> > hostname. There is no trailing period.
> 
> May someone create a "com" subdomain in a DNS domain you have to work in,
> Mark.

It wouldn't bother me.  I use sane resolvers and don't use partially qualified
names.
 
> Or *course* the trailing dot matters, even if only due to the behavior
> of DNS resolvers.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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