On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:59:22AM +0200, Emiel van Berlo wrote: > o.k. then why doesn't the slaved NS and MX records have this trailing > dot in the powerdns database? >
The server adds them. You do not need to add a dot "." to every record in a database, if the software can do it. It matches a user's experience with browsers, e.g. http://www.google.com is what they enter and see although the full correct DNS name ends with a dot ".". Cheers, Ken > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Marc Haber <mh+pdns-us...@zugschlus.de> > wrote: > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:17:24AM +0200, Emiel van Berlo wrote: > >> The PowerDNS manual has a BIG warning that it's forbidden to have a > >> trailing dot on domainnames. > > > > I guess that means the internal database format. To my understanding, > > the period must be present in the DNS packet. > > > >> To my opinion, something goes wrong with the slave setup and the zone > >> transfer, or the manual is outdated. > > > > I think you have misunderstood. When you directly write into the > > databases, using a trailing period is contraproductive. > > > > Greetings > > Marc > > _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
