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I was trundling along quite happily (had to squint or sigh a few times) until I hit this: "The name of the root is the empty string (" ") generally denoted wit
by gerdesj 7y ago
I was trundling along quite happily (had to squint or sigh a few times) until I hit this:
"The name of the root is the empty string (" ") generally denoted with a dot (.):"
... and left.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoWhy? Do you think it's untrue, or overly pedantic, or...? AFAIK that's just a simple factually-correct statement.
- gerdesj 7y agoWhich is it? " " or ".". That's an easy way to confuse people whilst trying to be complete. This is supposed to be a 101 class. . is the designation for root in DNS but it is not spelt out except where it is! For example: In a (BIND) zone file you terminate an entry with . otherwise it is considered relative to the "current" domain. When you type into your browser something like www.example.com you don't include a trailing dot. Finally, the empty string was shown like this: " ". That's a space. So, that's why I switched off.