Re: To WWW or not To WWW...

Actually, Peter, from my understanding of things, BOTH replies are
correct...

Jeff's reply is correct, and is more on the technical level of things;
basically, this is why it is done this way. Rossi Design's reply is also
correct, as this is how many of us actually deal with things like this:
through another party. My personal experience is that domain hosting company
X will provide both addressing types to you with your account, while domain
hosting company Y will charge you a little extra (either one-time or
monthly) for the second record.

Either way, though, it seems to be more on the lines of how the company you
host with sets things up. I've found that if a company gives each and every
domain a unique IP address, they're more likely to provide both types of
addressing (with and without the www part). On the other hand, if a domain
hosting company assigns IPs from a static pool (where a number of domains
share the same IP address), the dual addressing is less likely.

Just my 2c. Your best bet, though, would probably be to contact your domain
hosting company and ask them, since each company has different policies
about it.

Good luck!
Kehvan M. Zydhek


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Benoit" <pbenoit(at)triton-network.com>
To: "'Jeffrey Cohen'" <jcohen02(at)snet.net>
Cc: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 13:15
Subject: RE: To WWW or not To WWW...


> 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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