John C Klensin wrote:
--On Friday, June 02, 2000 10:56 AM -0700 Joe Touch
<touch(_at_)ISI(_dot_)EDU> wrote:
The use of the trailing dot (www.netscape.com.) remains
a useful way to force the resolver to avoid suffix extensions.
And a useful way to induce massive confusion, since many
applications do not recognize the hack and won't pass it to a
resolver (which, of course, may or may not recognize it either).
It's not a hack - it's a fully qualified domain name.
Wouldn't this be a fine way to flag the bug in those apps?
Joe