Re: [cobalt-users] DNS - Basic Concepts and Instructions

["James A. Dory" <jim_dory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

aljuhani wrote:

> Hello List.
>
> This FAQ about DNS were used to be posted on regular basis
> by  Rodolfo J. Paiz (rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) to cobalt-users.
>  
<snip>

> 3.5 FQDN - Fully-Qualified Domain Names
>
> Domain names and host names are read "inside-out", which means that each 
> component of the name is "inside" the next one. The components of a name 
> are separated by dots, where usually the text to the left of the first dot 
> is the hostname (name of the machine). The rest of the FQDN is the domain 
> name (name of the network). An example of a FQDN:
>
> george . jetson . com .
>
> This means that:
>
> www is the hostname, which is inside
> jetson, which is a second-level domain name because it is inside
> com, which is a top-level domain name, which is inside
> which represents the root-servers
>
> Please notice that dot at the end! It denotes the root servers... and as 
> with trees, everything comes from the root. DNS resolvers (clients) who 
> don't know anything about a particular domain follow this sequence to 
> resolve a name:
>  
<snip>

Being a novice that wants to understand, and recognizes faqs like this 
as a good resource to me and others, maybe someone could fill in 
something that got left out here.  In the above example of FQDN, I'm not 
sure where the www in that example came from, and down further, it states:
"which is a top-level domain name, which is inside

which represents the root-servers"

Just a small annoyance but the thing would be better if corrected. (Or did I just lose a packet on the mail transfer?) Maybe all it is missing is the 'dot'?

Thanks to Aljuhani for posting it.

--
Jim D.