Re: domains without www.

Beth,

Hopefully you are managing your own DNS.  With that
said...to have your domain answer to www.company.com or
company.com:

ON your DNS Server files...
create your primary domain as "company.com" instead of
www.company.com
create an alias as "www" for company.com domain

We use Apache on various OS's - NT, Solaris, etc.... what
this means to you is that the 700+ domains we manage all
answer both ways.

You will also want to create aliases for:
ftp
pop
popd
pop3
smtp
etc, etc, etc....

Additionally consider giving your mail exchange  (MX record)
server a primary name of mail.company.com, then
pop.company.com, popd.company.com, etc....

Write me off list for additional info

Regards,
Chris Moos



----- Original Message -----
From: "beth" <beth(at)netstat.com>
To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 1:42 AM
Subject: domains without www.


> Hi all,
>
> I AM NOT A WEB SERVER EXPERT.  With that said, I am trying
to understand
> something.  We use apache on a unix box.  When a site is
registered and
> we begin hosting it -it is entered as www.whatever.com.
>
> Our clients are distressed that they cannot get to their
web site by
> just typing in whatever.com.
>
> Is it common practice to put www.whatever.com as well as
whatever.com in
> the DNS file?
>
> If it is not common practice, how do I explain this to my
sometimes
> really uninformed clients?
>
> Will putting in www.whatever.com and whatever.com in the
DNS file cauuse
> some type of lag?  I just don't get it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Beth
>

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