{"id":4730,"date":"2009-10-13T11:01:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T18:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.infoblox.com\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2020-05-06T10:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:31:47","slug":"i-dont-want-to-say-i-told-you-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/blog\/security\/i-dont-want-to-say-i-told-you-so\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Want to Say &#8220;I Told You So&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;especially at the expense of the excellent folks who run .SE, but wasn&#8217;t I just\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.infoblox.com\/post.cfm\/automation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writing last month<\/a>\u00a0about everything that can go wrong in a manually administered DNS environment? In fact, didn&#8217;t I specifically say:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Use a trailing dot to prevent the origin from being appended to a domain name. 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