I would think so...it would also prevent soft referencing of alternate
domain names because it would force DNS to search the root domain (.)
-Scot Mc Pherson
-N2UPA
-RF Engineer
-ClearAccess Communications
-http://www.clearaccess.net
-maito:smcpherson(_at_)clearaccess(_dot_)net
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Touch [mailto:touch(_at_)ISI(_dot_)EDU]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 4:12 PM
To: John C Klensin
Cc: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Security and suffixes (Re: Cite on DNS-related traffic.)
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