From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 20:42:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shorts.nts-online.net (dns2.nts-online.net [216.167.161.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533DA37B42C for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 20:42:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clcont@gmx.net) Received: from contrec (dialup-lbb-0750.nts-online.net [216.167.135.114]) by shorts.nts-online.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f3R3Vsn25626; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:31:56 -0500 Message-ID: <001c01c15e99$585c3650$0101a8c0@contrec> From: "Christopher Leigh" To: "Tony Landells" , References: <200104270339.NAA26008@tungsten.austclear.com.au> Subject: Re: *.example.net Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:42:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG yall missed the point... it wasn't for mis-typing, it was so that they go to a different document root... like blah.example.net goes to /www/hosts/blah, etc. that's what it's for... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Landells" To: "Jonathan Fortin" Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:39 PM Subject: Re: *.example.net > > jfortin@akalink.com said: > > The whole point of using wildcard DNS in my regard is if you got a > > production website, you would point *.yourdomain.com to the IP address > > to redirect impotent users to your homepage, then you can rewrite the > > HTTP_HOST header with mod _rewrite making it seem like they didn't > > mistype it which is actually good, but either then that I wouldnt see > > the use. > > That's an interesting idea, but I'd submit that if you've followed > convention and named your Web site "www.yourdomain.com", then the > only thing you're saving them from is mistyping "www", because if > they mistype "yourdomain.com" they're not going to get your DNS server > anyway. > > If you haven't followed convention then you're making life difficult > for other people anyway, and making "all roads lead to Rome" would > seem a contradiction. > > If you had a good reason for not naming your Web server "www" but want > people to find it as "www", then you can put in a separate A record or > CNAME record that leads them in the right direction. > > Cheers, > Tony > -- > Tony Landells > Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 > Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 > Level 4, Rialto North Tower > 525 Collins Street > Melbourne VIC 3000 > Australia > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message