On Sunday, 6 March 2022 11:07:54 GMT John Covici wrote: > 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.
Which browser? The ones I've tried would first try youtube.com, and if that fails name lookup it will try prepending www. That may happen too fast for you to notice, though. -- Regards, Peter.
