Hi All,
The following is based on my thoughts, because I've asked this question
as well in the past and these are the assumptions and findings I've come
to... let's not turn this in to a flame war if you think I'm off the mark :)
Hi Andrew,
There is a range of answers a head of me, however they are not all 100%
correct - this one won't be either...
In my hosting enviornment I can have different web sites on
www.bowenvale.co.nz
bowenvale.co.nz
The www was orginally a convention. As time has gone on we've done away
with many conventions.
I can also specify
www.syd.bowenvale.co.nz and syd.bowenvale.co.nz and have them both
resolve to different IP addresses.
The system was designed to be flexiable.
Our normal convention is that www. and . go to the same site, these days.
If you do a dig on www.bowenvale.co.nz and syd.bowenvale.co.nz you'll
see they have different A records.
Further...
www.hearingbooks.co.nz, www.bowenvale.co.nz, www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz
all resolve to the same IP address.
The HTTP header from the web browser sends the url to the web server.
Hence, if you want to see the right web site then you must have the web
server set up for
www.hearingbooks.co.nz, www.bowenvale.co.nz, www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz
hearingbooks.co.nz, bowenvale.co.nz, thinkdesignprint.co.nz
It's all about flexibility.
Some have suggested it's a mistake, some have suggested it's lazy.
These are features by design.
There is also no reason why you couldn't serve up a web server at
smtp.bowenvale.co.nz as long as the location the A record is pointing to
has an http server deliverying on port 80.
I'm sure this goes some way to further confusing the isssue.
Cheers Don
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.
Andrew
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Don Gould
www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz -
www.bowenvale.co.nz - www.hearingbooks.co.nz - SkypeMe: ThinkDesignPrint
