Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:48:45 -0400 From: "Jonathan Fortin" <jfortin@akalink.com> To: "Tony Landells" <ahl@austclear.com.au> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: *.example.net Message-ID: <003b01c0cecc$f5eeebe0$0200320a@node00> References: <200104270339.NAA26008@tungsten.austclear.com.au>
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> > 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. Correct. I usually register a fiew typo domains though. > > 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. No offense, but you will have to explain yourself better. Their is no client-side difficultys, usually people type in ww, wwww and it will bring them to the correct area. > > 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. > Right but that has nothing to do with dns wildcarding. > Cheers, > Tony > -- > Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> > 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
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