Is going to "http://somewhere.com." faster?

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Mon Aug 2 03:49:56 UTC 1999


And, as I have previously noted, the behavior of nslookup may or may not
match that of the resolver.

Michael

Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:
> 
>         It is no longer "normal" behaviour and has not been for several
>         year.
> 
>         If your resolver has this behaviour it contains a significant
>         security flaw.
> 
>         Mark
> 
> > This is normal behavior of the resolver. And yes if you append a dot its
> > faster.
> >
> >
> > >From: yong321 at yahoo.com
> > >To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> > >Subject: Is going to "http://somewhere.com." faster?
> > >Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:20:55 GMT
> > >
> > >I'm learning DNS. At the nslookup> prompt, I "set debug". Then query
> > >"www.uh.edu" for University of Houston (I work at Houston). It first
> > >tries to find "www.uh.edu.mycompany.com" and gets 0 answers. Then it
> > >tries to find "www.uh.edu" and finds it. Now if I type "www.uh.edu."
> > >(with the appending dot), it finds it with one attempt. This is easy to
> > >understand.
> > >
> > >Then I think if I go to the homepage of any Web site (not inside the
> > >site), I can append a dot to the host name to speed up DNS lookup a
> > >little bit. So in the browser, instead of typing the URL "www.uh.edu"
> > >(or "http://www.uh.edu") I type "www.uh.edu.". Please comment. Thanks.
> > >
> > >Yong
> > >Email:yong321 at yahoo.com
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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