[32067] in bugtraq
Re: What software breaks because of this DNS feature?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Sierchio)
Tue Oct 14 14:55:02 2003
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:13:26 -0700
From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
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Richard M. Smith wrote:
> According to RFC1034, "cnn.com" and "cnn.com." should be the same domain
> names. However, it doesn't appear that programmers always understand that
> trailing dots can be added to domain names.
>
> ...
>
> However, Internet Explorer considers these two domain names to be different
Is it IE or is it the Windows resolver?
