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> But, but, but, why is the . symbol within the ", is this all fake? Fun fact for those who (like me) didn't know for a long time... technically "gmail.com." i

> But, but, but, why is the . symbol within the ", is this all fake? Fun fact for those who (like me) didn't know for a long time... technically "gmail.com." is actually the domain name for Gmail. It's called the fully qualified domain name (FQDN), akin to an absolute domain name (as opposed to relative to the current subnet).

BCM43 9y ago
Do you have a source for this? I've not heard this before. The Wikipedia article on FQDN doesn't mention ti.
- throwaway613834 9y ago
  > Do you have a source for this? I've not heard this before. The Wikipedia article on FQDN doesn't mention it. Actually it's right there in the Wikipedia article [1]... The DNS root is unnamed, expressed as the empty label terminated by the dot. This is most notable in DNS zone files in which a fully qualified domain name must be specified with a trailing dot. For example, somehost.example.com. explicitly specifies an absolute domain name that ends with the empty top level domain label. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name#Syntax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name#Sy...
- KekDemaga 9y ago
  I learned this while configuring Bind9 for the first time: https://wiki.debian.org/Bind9#A.2Fetc.2Fresolv.conf_File https://wiki.debian.org/Bind9#A.2Fetc.2Fresolv.conf_File
mxscho 9y ago
But this is more related to the American English style of placing punctiation inside the quotes, isn't it? [1] As a German (we don't do this), I also didn't like that when I saw it the first time. [1] http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/british-versus-american-style.html http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/british-versus-american-s...
- throwaway613834 9y ago
  Indeed, and I was not trying to suggest the punctuation was due to them intentionally trying to write an FQDN. I was just mentioning a fun fact that the notation reminded me of.

BCM43 9y ago

Do you have a source for this? I've not heard this before. The Wikipedia article on FQDN doesn't mention ti.

throwaway613834 9y ago
> Do you have a source for this? I've not heard this before. The Wikipedia article on FQDN doesn't mention it. Actually it's right there in the Wikipedia article [1]... The DNS root is unnamed, expressed as the empty label terminated by the dot. This is most notable in DNS zone files in which a fully qualified domain name must be specified with a trailing dot. For example, somehost.example.com. explicitly specifies an absolute domain name that ends with the empty top level domain label. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name#Syntax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name#Sy...
KekDemaga 9y ago
I learned this while configuring Bind9 for the first time: https://wiki.debian.org/Bind9#A.2Fetc.2Fresolv.conf_File https://wiki.debian.org/Bind9#A.2Fetc.2Fresolv.conf_File

mxscho 9y ago

But this is more related to the American English style of placing punctiation inside the quotes, isn't it? [1] As a German (we don't do this), I also didn't like that when I saw it the first time. [1] http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/british-versus-american-style.html http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/british-versus-american-s...

throwaway613834 9y ago
Indeed, and I was not trying to suggest the punctuation was due to them intentionally trying to write an FQDN. I was just mentioning a fun fact that the notation reminded me of.