[161108] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Should host/domain names travel over the internet with a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Feb 25 18:24:32 2013
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:24:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130225224810.GA99258@numachi.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Reichert" <reichert@numachi.com>
> > > 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.
Concur, unhappily. And at this point, we are *definitely* out-of-scope
for NANOG. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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