[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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