I presume it was copied form the DB Ref Man, which should be update to reflect relality. :-) I really appreciate the fact that the software accepts the trailing "." for an FQDN. Wilfried. Katie Petrusha wrote:
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:10:06AM +0200, Pim van Pelt wrote:
Dear Pim,
One thing caught my eye:
[domain_name] is the fully qualified DNS name of the name server without a trailing "."
Considering 'bfib.ipng.nl' and 'bfib.ipng.nl.' end up pointing to the same hostname (the latter doing a somewhat better job), I don't understand why you would want to specify '... without the trailing "."'. I sometimes bump into this in other (related) areas such as looking up "*.in-addr.arpa.". It was discussed some time ago and IIRC the outcome was that the software is easily modified to accept this trailing dot. I'd prefer to see it that way.
You're right. This is rather a typo :( The names are accepted both with and without trailing dot now; it will stay that way. Thanks for noticing this!