bugtraq - Re: What software breaks because of this DNS feature?

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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:13:26 -0700
From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@...ebras.com>
Cc: "BUGTRAQ@...URITYFOCUS. COM" <BUGTRAQ@...URITYFOCUS.COM>
Subject: Re: What software breaks because of this DNS feature?

Richard M. Smith wrote:

> According to RFC1034, "cnn.com" and "cnn.com." should be the same domain
> names.  However, it doesn't appear that programmers always understand that
> trailing dots can be added to domain names.  
 >
> ...
 >
> However, Internet Explorer considers these two domain names to be different

Is it IE or is it the Windows resolver?