Re: Should host/domain names travel over the internet with a trailing dot?

25 Feb 2013


      On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 09:07:24AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
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In message <15455394.7034.1361803759023.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>, Ja
y Ashworth writes:
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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.
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