[161107] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Should host/domain names travel over the internet with a trailing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Reichert)
Mon Feb 25 18:12:24 2013
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:48:10 -0500
From: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130225220724.6EF12300B8E8@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 09:07:24AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
>
> In message <15455394.7034.1361803759023.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>, Ja
> y Ashworth writes:
> > More formally: "is a host/domain name with a trailing dot *actually a
> > legal host name?
>
> No. See RFC 952
In the case of URIs, RFC 2396 (circa 1998) seems to allow for it,
if I read the ABNF for 'hostname' right in section 3.2.2.
But that's the only place I see it.
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Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
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