RFC 1034 A fully qualified domain name must have a final dot/period after the tld. Adding the dot to a address that isn't resolved via DNS seems to be confusing

RFC 1034 A fully qualified domain name must have a final dot/period after the tld. Adding the dot to a address that isn't resolved via DNS seems to be confusing the lookup. Edit: leaving the above despite being untrue save semantically. inet_atom just wants byte order addresses dot separated and adding a trailing dot isn't anticipated and returning a error.