Re: .local dns
Re: .local dns
- Subject: Re: .local dns
- From: Joshua Graessley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:46:35 -0700
On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 16:52, Steven Bytnar wrote:
Someone else has complained about this in the past.
http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-admin/2003-March/
029619.html
One small thing to note while reading that comment. Placing a '.' at
the end of a name indicates the name is fully qualified. The author
seems to be unfamiliar with this. If you send the name "foobar.local"
to the resolver library, the resolver will treat that as an unqualified
name. Most resolvers will first attempt to resolve the unqualified name
as though it were a fully qualified name. If that fails, the search
domains are appended to the unqualified name to form a fully qualified
name. At that point, an attempt is made to resolve the fully qualified
name. This is why the document refers to "local.". It is indicating
that if the fully qualified name has the top level domain "local", then
mDNS should be used. This check is performed after any search domains
are appended.
-josh
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