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SV: Trailing dot in domain-name

2004-05-08 03:15:08
For example:  "v=spf1 a:example.org. -all"
What is the meaning of this trailing dot?

A fully qualified domain name ends with a dot in DNS configuration files. If 
you have a default search domain named "dybdahl.dk", then everything that 
doesn't end in a dot would get this appended. This means, that in DNS 
configuration files:

example.org is the domain that is used in http://example.org.dybdahl.dk/
example.org. is the domain that is used in http://example.org/

There is no need to have the dot in the SPF record - it would probably just 
confuse a lot of people - but DNS operators would probably like to have it 
there to make it look more like the rest of the DNS configuration file.

So the short answer is: Yes, just remove it.

Lars.


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