diff --git a/website/source/docs/agent/dns.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/agent/dns.html.markdown
index 11b0ab6134..0c3a3055a8 100644
--- a/website/source/docs/agent/dns.html.markdown
+++ b/website/source/docs/agent/dns.html.markdown
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ To resolve names, Consul relies on a very specific format for queries.
 There are fundamentally two types of queries: node lookups and service lookups.
 A node lookup, a simple query for the address of a named node, looks like this:
 
-    <node>.node.<datacenter>.<domain>
+    <node>.node[.datacenter].<domain>
 
 For example, if we have a "foo" node with default settings, we could look for
 "foo.node.dc1.consul." The datacenter is an optional part of the FQDN: if not