Re: [SLUG] URL question...

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2007 - 13:57:32 EDT


On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Mike Branda wrote:

> David R. Meyer wrote:
>> Guys (and girls),
>>
>> I am trying to find out why some websites don't come up when you leave out
>> the "www" from the URL, but others do. I know it is a basic question and I
>> used to know the answer, but for the life of me, Googling it and digging
>> back inside my brain isn't helping. If anyone can assist, or point me in
>> the right direction, I'd be most appreciative.
>
> It's a dns record issue.
>
> add this after the serial, refresh and MX entries to your mydomain.com.zone
> in bind:
>
> mydomain.com. IN A 10.10.10.10
>
> www IN A 10.10.10.10
>
>
> and it should fix it. If it's a hosting company, sometimes you have to "turn
> on" the option to resolve both.

OTOH, if it's someone else's domain, you're probably stuck with whatever the
luser administrator picked out (without some sort of DNS proxy).

-- 
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