On Thursday 21 September 2006 11:44, Andrew Errington wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:13, you wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 07:49:00PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
> > > RTFM the web site... http://www.clug.net.nz/ isn't the right answer at
> > > present.
> >
> > How about leaving off the totally redundant and stupid waste of 4
> > characters "www." and let the resource specifier "http" do the work for
> > you? :-) Not that that has anything to do with the problem, of course.
>
> Actually, I'm curious. Can someone please explain why some sites won't
> work *unless* you provide the redundant and stupid 'www.' portion?
>
> For example (in FireFox):
>
> http://jaycar.co.nz Does not work
>
> http://www.jaycar.co.nz Does work
>
> There are other sites like that, and this is just one example to illustrate
> my point.
The former is not in the DNS system, whereas the latter is.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ host jaycar.co.nz
jaycar.co.nz A record currently not present
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ host www.jaycar.co.nz
www.jaycar.co.nz A 202.74.164.242
The whois command will reveal the party responsible.
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CS
