Subj : The Open Root Server Confederation
To   : Jonathan De Boyne Pollard
From : Rich Wonneberger
Date : Fri Mar 16 2001 02:10 pm

*** Quoting Jonathan De Boyne Pollard to Rich Wonneberger dated 03-15-01 ***
> This is because a strict reading of the RFCs tells one that names not 
> ending with a dot are *not*, in fact, in fully qualified form.  The DNS
> proper only deals with fully qualified names.  So unqualified names 

Jonathan,

I think I understand it.
Does this apply to not putting in the http://  in a name & it still works??
How about no http://www.    (just say ibm.com)

*** Quoting Jonathan De Boyne Pollard to Rich Wonneberger dated 03-15-01 ***
>     1. "www.ibm.com.rich.wonneberger.person."
>     2. "www.ibm.com.wonneberger.person."
>     3. "www.ibm.com.person."
>     4. "www.ibm.com."

So until I get your DNS utility going it would be faster for me to add the '.' 
to each name, no??

Rich
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