Actually, I believe, www is the name of the webserver. That is standard on Unix type systems and will automatically fire up Apache (the standard webserver deamon). You do not have to have a pointer on the Name Server, but you do have to have one in the hosts file of the Unix system your the Name Server points to. On Windows systems, who the hell knows?
Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "jerome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 9:29 AM Subject: OT: websites with and without www > I've searched the web, but have not come up with an answer to my satisfaction > just yet. Perhaps you can help. > > Why do some sites have www.domainname.com, and others just domainname.com > (without the "www")? But more to the point, sometimes typing in domainname.com > will retrieve the site while adding the three w's will cause failure. whats up > with that? I couldn't imagine that one person could own the domain name with > the dubya's and another without. I suspect that the "problem" deals moreso with > the server than domain registration... but perhaps I'm wrong. > > Please advise. > > - jerome > > >
