Re: [hylafax-users] The age old Str.h assert problem

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:46:00PM -0500, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> John Gilman wrote:
> >    192.168.1.xxx   hostname.   alias
> >
> >in order for the whole thing to work. Notice the "." at the end of hostname.
> >That is necessary and is at least one cause of the Str.h assert failure.
> 
> Unfortunately, most people are not aware of the fact that '.' is the 
> top-level domain and that only domain names ending with a '.' are in 
> fact FQDNs.

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The name of the root domain is, in fact, "".

The dot is a separator character.

My website is at baylink.pitas.com.""

(strictly, it's at baylink.pitas.com.{IAB-ROOT}, but, by way of
transparent mirroring, it's also at baylink.pitas.com.{ORSC-ROOT},
among other places.)

> "www.fibrespeed.net." is the FQDN of our webserver, for example; if you 
> typed that in, you'd get our website.
> "www.fibrespeed.net" is the same name, but since it lacks the trailing 
> '.', your resolver is free to try things like 
> "www.fibrespeed.net.hylafax.org" or the now-infamous 
> "www.fibrespeed.net.com" type queries.

Yeah, and whomever permitted people to register the reserved 2LD
domain's names as 3LD's oughtta be hung, shot, boiled in oil, drawn and
quartered... and the *pieces* arrested.

And note that some programs get cranky if you *do* give the "trailing"
dot, because the *programs* don't realize this either.
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Cheers,
-- jra
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