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. jh