Many, many working groups have looked at the problems associated with
relative names and determined that they're not acceptable. It's a
"bug" that relative names are forbidden in these apps, nor that the
final "." is implicit and in many cases disallowed. These are
carefully considered design features. (for instance, forbidding the
final "." makes it simpler to compare domain names for equivalence.)
It's nonsensical for an application to decide that relative names are
unacceptable, but to require users to input names as relative.
it's nonsensical for you to unilaterally declare that such names are
relative, when well over two decades of practice indicates otherwise.
(and remember, some of these apps predate DNS and the whole notion of
relative names)
it's almost as if the very concept of relative names in DNS is itself a
bug - especially if you insist that handling of DNS names be absolutely
uniform from one app to the next. IMHO they cause far more problems
than they're worth.
Keith
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