On Thu, June 23, 2011 11:53, John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Giles Coochey wrote: > >> Can you avoid the bar.baz.domain.com.domain.com by searching for >> >> bar.baz.domain.com. >> >> (note trailing dot) >> >> ?? > > Hmm, good suggestion, that I'd not considered, Thanks. It does appear to > clear that up (down to two lookups from three: an AAAA and an A). It > doesn't > always appear to work though: > > http://bar.baz.domain.com./index.html > > This doesn't appear to universally work, but I'm not sure whether that's a > bug > with the affected web servers or not. > Yes, I'm sure it will depend on the implementation, the trailing dot was somewhat an educated guess from previous ISC BIND & dig tool use. :-) As for both the A and AAAA record, I think you will have that until IPv4 is fully deprecated by IPv6 and no longer exists, unless, of course, you want to use non IPv6 aware software (or non-IPv4 aware software... shudder - it will happen!).