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Re: rcvdfrom error from /etc/hosts



Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>
> Note the trailing "." on the fqdn, I was under the impression this was
> legal and a trailing dot means this is a fqdn name.

Legal in some circumstances.  Not all, and not this one.  Basically,
where you -have- to use an FQDN, you -cannot- use the dot.

Where you can use a non-FQDN, -sometimes- you can use the dot to say
"don't bother trying to look for this in any domains, it's fully
qualified already".  I don't know any really good rule.

--Arnt