[thelist] home page max size / www discussion
Tyme
nopun at bellsouth.net
Fri Dec 14 11:38:13 CST 2001
For more sleuthing/comparison: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph
To tell what server and OS of a domain is running.
----- Original Message -----
From: Keith <cache at dowebs.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] home page max size
> aardvark
>
> Adobe probably doesn't even realize that adobe.com does not
> resolve. Perhaps everyone who works there has www.adobe.com
> bookmarked, all of their visitors are savy enough to retype it, and
> the question just never came up. Or, the sys admin got his hackles
> up when it was pointed out and he's never going to back down
> (wouldn't suprise me at all if a pre-web company like adobe is
> being held hostage by a unix sys nazi, it happens to lots of big
> companies).
>
> I've noticed that instances of domain.com resolving to
> www.domain.com increased in proportion to cobalt raq sales. Last I
> looked Sun/Cobalt was shipping over 1 million domain capacity per
> month. Cobalt raqs will accept a no host (domain.com) as an alias
> in the DNS server but you cannot run a virtual domain without the
> www, or some other host, on the webserver, it screws up the cobalt
> admin. As a result doman.com resolves out to www.domain.com.
> BUT, it resolves only if you specify domain.com to resolve to
> www.domain.com, it's not automatic.
>
> Many raq admins expect/want/need Linux/Apache admin to be
> windows point-n-click easy and never do add the extra alias, A
> record, or MX record for that matter. Requiring www in the location
> bar is one thing, but requiring an email address like
> me at www.domain.com is just totally weird. Yet many raqs remain
> set up to work that way.
>
> What does an adobe email address look like?
> name at www.adobe.com?
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