Subj : The Open Root Server Confederation
To   : Rich Wonneberger
From : Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Date : Sun Mar 18 2001 03:20 pm

 JdeBP>>     1. "www.ibm.com.rich.wonneberger.person."
 JdeBP>>     2. "www.ibm.com.wonneberger.person."
 JdeBP>>     3. "www.ibm.com.person."
 JdeBP>>     4. "www.ibm.com."

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

It would certainly prevent the extra useless lookups being sent to your ISP, 
and the extra useless "no such name" replies being returned.  Tobias gave a 
good explanation of another reason that this is a good habit to get into.

 ¯ JdeBP ®

--- FleetStreet 1.22 NR
 * Origin: JdeBP's point, using Squish <yuk!> (1:109/921.70)

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