"Trailing dots in hostnames is a menace and a plague that keeps haunting us and the world at large."
I felt I had to put this into this CVE advisory I'm drafting...
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It's always DNS.
@bagder My understanding is that's a core part of DNS so unlikely to change without redesigning DNS. I have wondered if part of the issue is that it gets abstracted away/ignored in implementation (i.e. you dont have to add the trailing dot in many things for an address to work).
@bagder it’s called terminating for a reason ;)
@bagder Don't worry about it, just use libcurl to... oh, wait...
