Re: http://www. vs. http:// (was Re: midrangenews.net)

Some sites will point them to two different servers or subdomains.  In 
reality all it is is a DNS record.  Most ISP's will set it up so that they 
both resolve to the same thing.

Here is an example of ours:

cwtruck.com.    38400   IN      A       216.55.187.17
www     38400   IN      CNAME   cwtruck.com.

The cwtruck.com resolves to our assigned IP address, the www uses a CNAME 
record to resolve to the cwtruck.com. domain name which in turn resolves to 
the IP address....this way either of them works.


On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:39:11 -0400, Dan wrote
> On 8/11/05, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > That's one of the few aspects in which our company got a little cheap 
too.
> >  http://www.dekko.com works but not http://dekko.com  Just pennies I 
know,
> > but ...
> > 
> > Rob Berendt
> 
> I have noticed that some websites are finicky about this, but I have
> never understood why.  I have a website that works either way,
> 69Torino.Info or www.69Torino.Info, but I never explicitly did
> anything to effect that.
> 
> How does one get "cheap" by Rob's example?
> 
> - Dan
> 
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If you bought, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.