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Re: Web interface to LUGNET news moving from www.lugnet.com to news.lugnet.com
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:48:02 GMT
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mattdm@+stopspam+mattdm.org
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> ('www.' prefixes are almost always web site locations). Typically, domains
> of the type news.foo.bar are the names of NNTP servers, which you can access
> at port 119. The display code could be smarter and look up news.foo.bar to
> see if there's an HTTP server running on port 80 and convert it to a link
> iff that's true, but it doesn't do that now.
If there's a web server there *and* if there is not also a web server. For
example, it could be that both news.example.com and www.example.com point to
the same machine (CNAMEs or additional A records, whatever). In that case,
<http://news.example.com/> would work, but it wasn't the intention.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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