[19655] in Athena Bugs
Re: name resolution on dialups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Sat Aug 18 15:10:33 2001
Message-Id: <200108181910.PAA149054@w20-575-120.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:30:10 EDT."
<200108181830.OAA19635@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:10:30 -0400
From: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>
What a stupid error. I'm familiar with dropping out of domain glue,
and have thought it a bug since I first encountered it. Until now
it has only caused an annoying delay in resolving a name.
Understanding the problem gives me the workaround: use foo.com.
instead of foo.com.
(I consider adding the default domain to a name already containing a
dot to be bad behavior, so the ndots tweak seems like the right answer.)
