>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Raeburn via RT <rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu> writes:

Ken> I think (but can't quite confirm, yet) that the target name is
Ken> supposed to be a complete name.  So if a hostname is returned without
Ken> a trailing ".", we might want to add one before looking it up.

RFC 1035 says that a <domain-name> is terminated with a zero-length
label, which seems to indicate that the target name is absolute.

RFC 1034 also indicates that relative names are mostly a user
interface thing.

---Tom