Re: OT: websites with and without www

2003-06-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Okay, I wasn't paying much attention back at the very start of the web (I was still using gopher and archie on a text terminal for a while before I discovered that text-only web browsers existed) so I may have missed a memo, but my understanding of the "www." prefix on site names is this: (Uh, if

Re: OT: websites with and without www

2003-06-02 Thread T Rittenhouse
You could map it to localhost. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto - Original Message - From: "Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 10:41 AM Subject: Re: OT: websites with and without www >

Re: OT: websites with and without www

2003-06-02 Thread T Rittenhouse
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 9:42 AM Subject: Re: OT: websites with and without www > Okay... even more specifically, I understand that Whether or not a site is > accessible without the preceding www depends on its DNS [domain name system] > setup. The better

RE: OT: websites with and without www

2003-06-02 Thread J. C. O'Connell
IL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OT: websites with and without www > > > Okay... even more specifically, I understand that Whether or not > a site is > accessible without the preceding www depends on its DNS [domain > name system] > setup. The better question is, how can thi

Re: OT: websites with and without www

2003-06-02 Thread Doug Franklin
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 09:42:46 -0400, jerome wrote: > Okay... even more specifically, I understand that Whether or not a site is > accessible without the preceding www depends on its DNS [domain name system] > setup. The better question is, how can this be changed? out of my hands? up to > the hos

Re: OT: websites with and without www

2003-06-02 Thread Doug Franklin
Hi Jerome, On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 09:29:59 -0400, jerome wrote: > I couldn't imagine that one person could own the domain name with > the dubya's and another without. I suspect that the "problem" deals moreso with > the server than domain registration... but perhaps I'm wrong. Whoever owns "domai