Re: domains without www.

Beth,

Common practice? Many hosting providers DO assume that clients want a
responsive domain name as well as www.domain name.   Is it a wise thing to
do? Absolutely.  The WWW's have begun to wear thin on the ears, eyes and
fingers of just about anyone who has been online for any length of time.

As far as DNS issues go, no.  Having both www and non www addresses has no
effect on DNS.  Configuration differences on DNS would be minimal.  Config
differences on the web server would depend on the set-up (host header vs. IP
multi-homed).  Host header would require a small configuration addition, IP
multi-homed would not.

I hope this helps.

John Romano
www.lihq.net


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


> 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.

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