Not to be argumentative, but as micael said, but there are multiple answers to the original poster's question, depending on whether you want to be figurative or literal. The literal answer is "no" for the reasons you and others have posted. The figurative answer, that is, the answer for what was probably the poster's original intended question, is "yes". You CAN use www.host.com/some-file.htm in "DNS" if you use what is known as a web forwarding or "cloaking" service.
For example, ZoneEdit.com does this. You can equate "www.some-host.com" to "www.some-other-host.com/some-file.html" and the end user will never see the "/some-file.html". Technically, this isn't DNS, it's a proxy, but again, it comes down to whether you want to answer the original question literally or investigate the intent behind the original question. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Sexton, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 6:58 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: DNS NAMES > > > Let me really cut right down to the chase here: > > Valid characters in a domain name are: > > a-z > 0-9 (digits) > - (Hyphen) > . (Period) > > Look at the RFC, and read the BNF definition for an identifier. > > -----Original Message----- > From: micael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 04 December, 2002 4:22 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: DNS NAMES > > > But don't be misled. Noel is giving you direct answer to the > way you put > the question, and I suspect, as others before me have, that > you don't mean > the question the way you are expressing it. You would be > better served > saying why you want to do this, because you are really going > to a lot of > this and that over something that seems to be really > unimportant. What you > want to do probably can be done, if you state what the real objective > is. Of course, making "whatever" into a DNS name is not your > goal, we can > surmise. > > Micael > > At 06:03 PM 12/4/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > > I want to create a DNS name itself like that....is it > possible..... > > > >As I said, the DNS name is www.test.com. The /final is not > part of the > DNS. > >If you want the short answer, it is: NO, by definition. If > you want to > know > >WHY: DNS is DOMAIN Naming System. The /final is a local > resource, not the > >domain. > > > > --- Noel > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Micael > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This electronic mail transmission and any accompanying > documents contain > information belonging to the sender which may be confidential > and legally > privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the > individual or entity to whom this electronic mail > transmission was sent as > indicated above. If you are not the intended recipient, any > disclosure, > copying, distribution, or action taken in reliance on the > contents of the > information contained in this transmission is strictly > prohibited. If you > have received this transmission in error, please delete the > message. Thank > you > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
