In my previous post "A good site for beginners" I had mentioned about a website called www.learntcpip.com.

If you notice carefully you can see I have put a dot (full stop) at the end, thanks VicE$DoS$ for finding that. I accept that was a mistake from my part, and beacuse of that the link was not opening the correct website.

Now to my question, some time back while I was reading about DNS, the book explained that the correct way of typing the web address is in the following heirarchical format

webserver.domainname.topdomain.

If you notice here there is a dot "." at the end and that is explained as the root server, since that is at the top of the heirarchy. The book also says that these days it is not required to put a dot "." at the end of the address but it should not hurt anything.

So my question is why some (almost all) address eg: www.msn.com. (notice "." at the end) opens the correct site while some address eg: www.msn.co.uk. does not open the site or open the wrong website ( www.learntcpip.com. )

hope I haven;t confused you all.

Thanks