Subj : Internet
To   : Digital Man
From : Arelor
Date : Sat Apr 24 2021 05:45:43

  Re: Internet
  By: Digital Man to Arelor on Thu Apr 22 2021 10:57 am

 >   Re: Internet
 >   By: Arelor to Ogg on Thu Apr 22 2021 05:27 am
 > 
 >  >   Re: Internet
 >  >   By: Ogg to HusTler on Mon Apr 19 2021 05:17 pm
 >  >
 >  >  > I used "dub dub dub" when communicating the "www" parts in a web
 >  >  > address years ago.  And even that is depricated now.
 > 
 > 
 >  > That one pisses me out. Just because a domain exist it does not mean a we
 >  > server is hosted there. That is what you can have multiple hosts in a
 >  > domain, so you can have mail.operationalsecurity.es for mails, and
 >  > www.operationalsecurity.es for web, for example.
 > 
 > Sure. But wouldn't it make sense for the shorted form (e.g.
 > operationalsecurity.es) to point to the server of most use/typing (e.g. the 
 > server)?
 > 
 > It used to annoy me when a site required a "www." sub-domain be specified in
 > web browser. Now, that's pretty rare.

It makes sense to redirect the traffic, sure. My services usually do short_form
-> www_form.

Some services from the Spanish administration have hosts with names such as
www1, www2, www3 under the same domain, so expecting that short_form will lead
you to the proper web server is not going to work, though.

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