On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Feb 19, 2008 4:43 AM, Christoph <christoph.boget@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Don't do that. > > > Some sites may or may not use www. for whatever reason... > > > Usually screwed-up A-name records by incompetent sysadmins, but there > > > it is... > > > > Really? So > > > > games.yahoo.com > > blogreport.salon.com > > mirror1.downloads.com > > > > are examples of screwed up records by incompetent sysadmins? > > No, they're properly-configured FQDNs. They're just irrelevant > examples to the context in which Rich was relaying to the OP. > > Picture a server where the A records or CNAMEs don't exist for the > www. alias. Or, conversely, where the only way to access the domain > is by using the www. alias. > > Those, Christoph, are some of the things incompetent sysops do.... > and on a surprisingly frequent basis. I see, so because I have garfieldtech.com and www.garfieldtech.com pointing to two entirely different servers in different states because I want them to do different things, I'm an incompetent sysop. Thanks, good to know. DNS was used for a lot of things long before the web came around, ya know. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
