On Sun, 06 Mar 2022 05:20:07 -0500,
Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> On Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:39:32 GMT John Covici wrote:
> > Hi. On my gentoo box, no application including ping can access
> > www.youtube.com. However, a dig is doing it correctly, so I can not
> > understand what is happening. A restart of named, gives me the same
> > result. This is very baffling to me. If I change the URL to just
> > youtube.com, it tries to work till the redirect to www.youtube.com and
> > then stops dead.
>
> The host name is youtube.com. The 'www' is just a prefix for humans to
> recognise; it has no real function any more, as far as I know.
Well, if I try to go to anything on youtube with the browser, it
redirects to www.youtube.com which is not accessible, except using
dig.
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