Question on a dns record

[Guest]

Running windows2000 with all the service packs.

I have a dns record that looks like the following:

domain>msdcs>dc>sites>default-first-site

tcp_ldap serviceLocation [0][100][389] servername.domain.com.

Is the last period allowed to be there or is this the correct syntax?

Regards,

 

[Herb Martin]

Running windows2000 with all the service packs.

I have a dns record that looks like the following:

domain>msdcs>dc>sites>default-first-site

tcp_ldap serviceLocation [0][100][389] servername.domain.com.

Is the last period allowed to be there or is this the correct syntax?

Not only allowed but required -- without a terminating period
the name is NOT a "full qualified domain name" as the terminating
period means "the root" (must like an initial slash in a file system
path means "the root".)

Without it, the domain name would be automatically appended
(again), giving (probably) servername.domain.com.domain.com.

Alternatively, it COULD be left off but then the domain name
should be omitted also: servername -- giving servername.domain.com.