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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:52:05 +1000
Subject: Re: Validating string for FDQN
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> [1] If a hostname ends with a dot, it's fully qualified.
>

Outside of BIND files, when do you ever see a name that actually ends
with a dot?

ChrisA