Re: www. not working
| From: | Jason Pruim | Date: | Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:48:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: www. not working | ||
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On Feb 20, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Daniel Brown wrote:
On Feb 19, 2008 10:42 PM, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:I actually read about that in some history books regarding DNS... Man Brown... You must be old if you actually remember it rather then reading it! :P "DNS" as we know it used to be done by editing the hosts file on individual computers. There was a central list that was published, and people had to redownload it to get their system to resolve the different and new domains. -- Jason Pruim Raoset Inc. Technology Manager MQC Specialist 3251 132nd ave Holland, MI, 49424 www.raoset.com japruim@raoset.comOn Tuesday 19 February 2008, Daniel Brown wrote:Back off, Garfield, my answer couldn't cover everything! ;-P Besides, without fully-quoting the rest of my message, you're taking it all completely out of context.On Feb 19, 2008 4:43 AM, Christoph <christoph.boget@gmail.com> wrote:I see, so because I have garfieldtech.com and www.garfieldtech.com pointing to two entirely different servers in different states because I want them to do different things, I'm an incompetent sysop. Thanks, good to know.No, they're properly-configured FQDNs. They're just irrelevant examples to the context in which Rich was relaying to the OP. Picture a server where the A records or CNAMEs don't exist for the www. alias. Or, conversely, where the only way to access the domain is by using the www. alias. Those, Christoph, are some of the things incompetent sysops do.... and on a surprisingly frequent basis.Don't do that. Some sites may or may not use www. for whatever reason... Usually screwed-up A-name records by incompetent sysadmins, but there it is...Really? So games.yahoo.com blogreport.salon.com mirror1.downloads.com are examples of screwed up records by incompetent sysadmins?DNS was used for a lot of things long before the web came around, ya know.You're full of it. Al Gore never would've invented DNS if he didn't have plans to let people "get on the AOL" to go to eBay. Jocularity aside, DNS was invented in 1983 (shortly after TCP/IP), whereas the WorldWide Web was first "invented" in 1990. However, if you remember ENQUIRE (on ARPANET), which was created by Tom Berners-Lee (I had to look up his name, I couldn't remember it), the same guy who went on to create the Web, you may remember it existed before DNS. So essentially, even though it wasn't yet known as the WorldWide Web, a form of it did exist before the Domain Name System. Just taking a trip down memory lane. ;-)