----- Original Message ----- From: "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Mandrake Expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 12:12 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Domain Name > On Monday 13 August 2001 09:48 am, George Petri methodically organized > electrons to state: > > Hello again! > > > > Suppose I were to buy my own domain name and run the apache webserver > > off my computer (mandrake 7.2)... > > > > What is the difference between http://domainname.com and > > http://www.domainname.com. Are they both the same? > > > > Because, some websites can only be accessed via http://domainname.com > > (e.g. http://x42.com), while most only work with www. > > > > Not really and Expert question or a Mandrake question. > > Let's look at a brief example: > > com = Petri > domainname=William > www=George > > >What is the difference between http://William.Petri and > > http://George.William.Petri. Are they both the same? > > Not necessarily, but they could be the same if the DNS resolves both names > to the same machine, for example: www.maximumhoyt.com and maximumhoyt.com > resolve to the same machine, but they don't have to. It's all in how the DNS > is set up. > > "www." came into use as part of a machines' fully qualified domain name to > differentiate it from other types, e.g, www, ftp, gopher, news, mail. It > probably meant something to early web browsers, but both "www." and "http://"; > seem to be increasingly superfluous. > > Hoyt Thanks! > > BTW, what is/who are "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" which > were the reply-to addresses for this email that I recieved on the Expert list? Don't really know -- Outlook Express is doing funny things and making me send attachments to the list...maybe I should have stayed with KMail but something has happened to my 'net connection in linux.
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