Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 22:27:42 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: webmaster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <199702052127.WAA13413@vector.jhs.no_domain> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Feb 1997 11:05:00 PST." <27274.855083100@time.cdrom.com>
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Hi, Reference: > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> > Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org > Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 11:05:00 -0800 > Message-id: <27274.855083100@time.cdrom.com> > > > Hi webmaster@freebsd.org, > > is http://freebsd.org/ > > a long term usable address ? > > or just something I tried that happened to work yesterday ? > > It's just the luck of the A record. > > > I'd like to quote a shorter address to people, both for the official pages, > > & my personal http://freebsd.org/~jhs/ area, > > > > but I don't want to if it's likely to change or annoy someone ? > > It's bad, please don't do it. If we decide to move the web pages to a > different host but leave services like `finger @freebsd.org' to work > as expected, we will expect people to be following the www.freebsd.org > pointer and your stuff will break. > > And yes, this could happen pretty much anytime. :-) > > Jordan OK, Thanks Jordan, I won't do it then :-) BTW I resisted asking "What's an A record then?" & looked up my nutshell book, only to find "A record" is indexed on page 185, & my last book mark is on page 159 ... so don't tell me ... I've got tonights bedtime reading :-) Thanks ! > Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/
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