A records point to a domain

[Stewart Tolhurst]

In article <39242101.45495242 at anta.net>, Thor Kottelin <thor at anta.net> 
says...
> 
> 
> Stewart Tolhurst wrote:
> 
> > e.g. http://yahoo.com goes to the
> > same site as http://www.yahoo.com
> 
> > It seems to me that this breaks every DNS convention - but it appears to
> > work.
> 
> Exactly what do you mean it would "break"? "yahoo.com." is a perfectly
> valid, normal domain name, just like "www.www.yahoo.com.",
> "www.yahoo.com." or "www.com."

Carry this on to its logical conclusion and you would be saying that 
"com" is a valid hostname - which wouldn't really be that much use to 
anyone.

What I feel that it breaks is the heirarchical way that DNS is organised.  
The structure of hostname.subdomain.subdomain.domain.tld (to take an 
extreme example) makes sense whereas (to me anyway) domain.tld being the 
name of a host makes no sense at all.

Just becuase people use something doesn't mean that it complies to RCFs - 
just ask Microsoft.

Stewart


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