[164441] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: On topic of domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Thu Jul 11 21:23:35 2013
In-Reply-To: <51df3a0f.a118ec0a.4f84.ffff8e99SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 20:23:07 -0500
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: bmanning@karoshi.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Chris Hills <chaz@chaz6.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/11/13, bmanning@karoshi.com <bmanning@karoshi.com> wrote:
> which explains domains like 3com.net.
> the trailing dot is not illegal.
Domain names can be presented with a trailing dot. A fully
qualified domain always contains at least one explicit dot.
The rightmost domain label of 3com.net. is "NET"; which does
not start with a digit, so that domain name is OK.
Although "3com.net" would not be a valid hostname; as a DNS name, it is fine.
> /bill
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-JH
