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

[yong321 at yahoo.com]

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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