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From: fab@md.interlink.com (Fred Bohle)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: re: name handling in DNS resolvers
Message-ID: <9105201459.AA01489@leo.md.interlink.com>
Date: 20 May 91 14:59:49 GMT
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The function of the search list for the DNS resolver is to let the
user customize the higher level domains to search.  Then the user
can decide how to handle their unique naming usage.

Secondly, if the user interface accepts a trailing dot, then the ambiguity
of a partial name matching a fully-qualified name can be avoided.  The name
with the trailing dot is  the fully-qualified name and needs no domain
appended to it.

Sounds to me like some more work needs to be done on that resolver code.

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