On 4/27/08 10:44 PM, Roger S. Cohen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Larry Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 4/27/08 11:22 PM: > >> By convention, www.something is used for a website but there's >> nothing special about www and if you wanted to call your mail domain >> www.somesite.com, it's just as valid as >> any.other.name.you.want.somesite.com > > > Well, no, it's not really. The www. behind the domain name lets us know > that it is a site on the WorldWide Web, and not a different type of site, > such as FTP.
To DNS, a hostname is a hostname is a hostname. DNS knows nothing about any special meaning for www. I'll be more than glad to setup an e-mail address for me in the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I can assure you, it will work just fine. > And you can't name your domain with a series of dots in it, such as > "any.other.name.you.want.somesite.com". Uh, yes I can. And I do so in my internal network all the time. I'll be more that glad to setup an e-mail address for me in the form something.somethingelse.stillsomethingelse.howevermanydotsyouwant.stonejongl eux.com and I can assure you, it will work just fine. > In such as naming convention, you > are indicating a site that is equivalent to > somesite.com/any/other/name/you/want. No I'm not. I'm indicating a host within the somesite.com domain. > Using that series of dots is one of > the ways that phishing schemes work. Sorry, nothing to do with phishing. If you don't understand, please get and read a good book on DNS such as the O'Reilly book. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
