RE: To WWW or not To WWW...

by Stephen Johnston <pepe(at)gainsay.com>

Date:	Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:12:02 -0800
To:	Peter Benoit <pbenoit(at)triton-network.com>, hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:
	todo: View Thread, Original

Both are true, in effect. I believe the DNS answer is more technically correct.

-Stephen Johnston


At 01:15 PM 3/22/2000 , you wrote:
>Uh oh... conflicting reports!
>
>Help!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeffrey Cohen [SMTP:jcohen02(at)snet.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 4:21 PM
> > To:   Peter Benoit
> > Subject:      Re: To WWW or not To WWW...
> >
> > This has nothing to do with flavor of server. It's all in the DNS. So, you
> > have to set up with whatever DNS software your using (BIND, Microsft DNS,
> > etc...) to setup two records, one with the www, and one without.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > Peter Benoit wrote:
> >
> > > It seems my NT hosted sites don't allow a URL without a
> > > http://www.whatever.com while my UNIX flavored hosts will let you get
> > away
> > > with it.  IE.  http://whatever.com .
> > >
> > > I have the feeling that it's just a server setup issue, whereas it's not
> > > pre-selected in NT while it is in UNIX.  Of course I have no idea to be
> > > honest, just speculating.  What exactly is the reason for this?  Is it
> > DNS
> > > related, or just some type of host config?

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