Is going to "http://somewhere.com." faster?

[John Tan]

This is normal behavior of the resolver. And yes if you append a dot its 
faster.


>From: yong321 at yahoo.com
>To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
>Subject: Is going to "http://somewhere.com." faster?
>Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:20:55 GMT
>
>I'm learning DNS. At the nslookup> prompt, I "set debug". Then query
>"www.uh.edu" for University of Houston (I work at Houston). It first
>tries to find "www.uh.edu.mycompany.com" and gets 0 answers. Then it
>tries to find "www.uh.edu" and finds it. Now if I type "www.uh.edu."
>(with the appending dot), it finds it with one attempt. This is easy to
>understand.
>
>Then I think if I go to the homepage of any Web site (not inside the
>site), I can append a dot to the host name to speed up DNS lookup a
>little bit. So in the browser, instead of typing the URL "www.uh.edu"
>(or "http://www.uh.edu") I type "www.uh.edu.". Please comment. Thanks.
>
>Yong
>Email:yong321 at yahoo.com
>
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