[UPHPU] CNAME to a different domain

[Sean]

No, the dot on the end point to the root servers. COM and ORG are 
actually a sort of sub-domain to the root servers, they each controll a 
domain, also known as authoritive, different companies like netsol and 
versign are authoritive over different domain extensions, then when you 
get a domain, they set you as the authoritive of yourdomain.com. which 
means you define what ip's are what domains. You can even continue and 
create deeper domain authoritives by passing the buck to say 
newYork.yourdomain.com.

Hope that makes sense, DNS was hard at first for me to get a grip on, 
but it's actually pretty simple...

- Sean Thayne


Joe C wrote:
> My understanding is they say that is the end of to domain name to point to.
> Kind of like ";" in some programing languages says this is the end of this
> line of code.
>
> If the records are for fubar.com and you make a cname that points
> test.fubar.com to ghs.google.com & you forget the trailing "." it instead
> points to ghs.google.com.fubar.com. as it assumes that is what you meant.
> So if you wanted test.fubar.com to point to ghs.google.com you would point
> it to ghs.google.com. instead.
>
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:05:29 -0600, Wade Preston Shearer
> <lists at wadeshearer.com> wrote:
>   
>>> Yeah, give it a go
>>>       
>> What do the dots on the end me/do?
>>