Yep, I manage a lot of domains for my organization and our members, and work on our and infrastructure regularly. I basically always end all DNS queries with a period to ensure Windows or Linux aren’t trying to append anything like a search domain and screwing with my results. Fixes so many issues, especially when you’re expecting an NXDOMAIN result.
Technically the toppest level domain is the root one, which has an empty label. That’s why truly FQDNs and with a period.
Well FQDN you too
FQ Deez nutz
I owned that domain once.
Yep, I manage a lot of domains for my organization and our members, and work on our and infrastructure regularly. I basically always end all DNS queries with a period to ensure Windows or Linux aren’t trying to append anything like a search domain and screwing with my results. Fixes so many issues, especially when you’re expecting an NXDOMAIN result.