[dns-operations] bug in Apache handling of real FQDNs

[Jim Popovitch]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Eli Heady <eli.heady at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since learning what 'fully qualified' really means, I've assumed this falls
> into an area of arcane trivia that many, if not most of the applications
> built atop the DNS probably don't implement correctly. Nearly every time
> this topic comes up at work it's due to a junior admin publishing
> something.tld.something.tld in our DNS, and I mostly get blank stares when I
> talk about the trailing dot and implied root in what's commonly thought to
> be FQDN's.
>
> At the same time, $WORK website fails to load when requested with the
> trailing dot (also running Apache). Maybe time to address that.
>
> A couple other funny examples:
>
> Apache: https://www.cio.gov./
> Nginx (cloudflare): https://www.ietf.org./
>

Another thing someone related is the problem of fullstops and other punctuation.

I.e., checkout this link: https://www.google.com/intl/en/about, and
this site: http://www.yahoo.com.


-Jim P.