Colm Buckley wrote:
> Given "salmon.maths", the same principle would apply. It contains one
> dot, which is less than two, so it applies the search paths again:
>> salmon.maths.tuatha.cs.tcd.ie.
> salmon.maths.tuatha.org.
> salmon.maths.cs.tcd.ie.
> salmon.maths.tcd.ie. -- this succeeds
> salmon.maths.
Does this mean that when you use domain names like slashdot.org or
ibm.com (without the www) that you are doing unnecessary lookups in the
tuatha/cd/tcd etc domains?
Does this have any performance overhead?
Kevin
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