On Sun, 06 Mar 2022 09:37:22 -0500,
Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> 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.
If I could get ping or host to work, I would go further. I have lynx
here which gives the steps its going through, so I saw the redirect to
www.youtube.com .
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