Validating string for FDQN

Chris Torek nospam at torek.net
Tue Jun 7 02:20:53 EDT 2011


>On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Nobody <nobody at nowhere.com> wrote:
>> [1] If a hostname ends with a dot, it's fully qualified.
[otherwise not, so you have to use the resolver]

In article <mailman.2521.1307425928.9059.python-list at python.org>,
Chris Angelico  <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>Outside of BIND files, when do you ever see a name that actually ends
>with a dot?

I type them in this way sometimes, when poking at network issues. :-)
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