tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8480357.post-60965930939419375952008-04-23T21:32:00.000-04:002008-04-23T21:32:00.000-04:002008-04-23T21:32:00.000-04:00It's not likely a bug.<BR/><BR/>The root of the DNS tree is "."<BR/><BR/>So ".com" is really ".com." <BR/><BR/>By convention, you can normally omit the trailing dot, but when you do that there are rules for completion that might apply.<BR/><BR/>In conventional applications, the rules are generally that if the name does not resolve exactly as it was typed, then the suffixes configured in the local machine's DNS search path are appended and additional attempt to resolve the name are made. Thus, if you had a host called "maureen.ibm.com", then from inside IBM you could just say "ping maureen" and your computer would find "maureen.ibm.com." and ping it. But if you entered "ping maureen.", it would not find it.<BR/><BR/>When configuring DNS entries, the rule is that if there is no trailing dot, it is relative to the parent domain for which you are creating the entry. Since your CNAME needs to point to a host tha tis outside your mvgirl.net domain, the trailing dot is required.Richard Schwartzhttp://www.powerofthewchwartz.comnoreply@blogger.com