On Feb 19, 2008 10:42 PM, Larry Garfield <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
Back off, Garfield, my answer couldn't cover everything! ;-P
Besides, without fully-quoting the rest of my message, you're
taking it all completely out of context.
> DNS was used for a lot of things long before the web came around, ya know.
You're full of it. Al Gore never would've invented DNS if he
didn't have plans to let people "get on the AOL" to go to eBay.
Jocularity aside, DNS was invented in 1983 (shortly after TCP/IP),
whereas the WorldWide Web was first "invented" in 1990. However, if
you remember ENQUIRE (on ARPANET), which was created by Tom
Berners-Lee (I had to look up his name, I couldn't remember it), the
same guy who went on to create the Web, you may remember it existed
before DNS. So essentially, even though it wasn't yet known as the
WorldWide Web, a form of it did exist before the Domain Name System.
Just taking a trip down memory lane. ;-)
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Daniel P. Brown
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