[gui-talk] WWW2

[Ed Barnes]

Hi Steve, in your example below and in any other case where site.com
works and www.site.com does not work it is usually related to dns
registration on the part of the registrant, person or organization
registering a particular internet domain name, it may be a case where
they did not register both even though registering both is not required,
it may be a case where web server is not configured to except requests
addressed to www.site.com but it does answer requests address to
site.com
It also may be a case where the registrant did not enable wildcards when
registering the domain. 
After all, www.site.com is only a canonical name for site.com anyway.
Steve, I am not sure if this answers your question or not, whether it
answer your question or not ultimately depends upon your level of
understanding of DNS protocols from a networking point of view.
Steve, if I've muddied the waters further so to speak I appologize.
Cheers, Ed.


Ed Barnes
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>>> steve.jacobson at visi.com 01/06/07 4:30 PM >>>

Chuck,

To clarify a little, I have seen cases where omitting the "WWW" resulted
in getting 
to a completely different site.  I have also seen sites where adding the
"WWW" caused the site not to be found.  The 
example that always comes to mind is that access.adobe.com works while
www.access.adobe.com does not.  I think 
your explanation is consistent with this in that you are saying the
"WWW" is simply a part of the name, but I wanted to 
make certain that readers understood that you were not saying the "WWW"
didn't matter, only that it isn't magic.  From 
my experiences, I would guess that Microsoft must have registered both
www.microsoft. com and microsoft.com.

By all means let me know if I have misunderstood something here.

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 23:38:29 -0800, Charles Oppermann wrote:

>The prefix "www" before a web address is just a convention, there is no
requirement that there is a "www" or anything 
before the domain name.  You can access the same content by specifying
"http://microsoft.com" or 
"http://www.microsoft.com".

>The idea is the first part of an internet address is name of the
server, so many sites can distribute load between many 
servers.  Normally the address that appears doesn't change, but on some
sites it might.

>--Chuck

>-----Original Message-----
>From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Wayne Merritt
>Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 8:22 PM
>To: GUI Talk
>Subject: [gui-talk] WWW2

>Greetings. I just noticed on the Blogger dashboard an address with
www2., in the address bar. What does the 2 
represent, and are there any other differences for the average user
verses the old www.address.com style?

>Many thanks,
>Wayne
>www.wayneism.com
>My blog:
>http://wayneism.blogspot.com
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