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Re: valid_hostname chokes on trailing dot

From: Chad Whitacre (chadzetaweb.com)
Date: Wed Oct 01 2008 - 11:50:59 CDT


John,

> If it is, it does not back up your assertion that a trailing
> dot is part of the FQDN.

Right, I stopped asserting that when Wietse and Noel told me that
FQDN means something different for SMTP than for DNS. The
question (I thought) was what to point to from Wikipedia.

chad

John Peach wrote:
>
> On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:40:57 -0400
> Chad Whitacre <chadzetaweb.com> wrote:
>
>> >> Please cite the relevant section of the relevant RFC.
>> > Happy to if you point me to it. I'm not an expert.
>>
>> Is this the right place?
>>
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-2.3.5
>>
>
> If it is, it does not back up your assertion that a trailing dot is
> part of the FQDN.
>
>