That's what makes domains true FQDNs :)
replyI read an interesting blog article on this a while back: https://lacot.org/blog/2024/10/29/the-trailing-dot-in-domain...
This is an interesting rabbit hole I wasn't prepared to jump in. Thanks for sharing the article, the world does work in strange coincidences indeed.
replyHave given a glance through it but I am also bookmarking to read it later once I get more free. Thanks for sharing it!
From the article:
> Wait, what? I can put a dot at the end of my domain names?
This was exactly how I felt at that moment :) The article has started pretty nicely.
The final dot indicates that the name is fully qualified. Without a final dot, DNS looks up the name and if that fails, it tries again appending each of the suffixes specified in "search" in /etc/resolv.conf.
replyIIRC domains names read from the right and the first dot is omitted. It's actually
replycom. example.com. subdomain.example.com.
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