[X4U] Leopard Issues

[Stroller]

On 4 Dec 2007, at 10:06, David Ledger wrote:

>> From: Stroller <macmonster at myrealbox.com>
>> Any website that requires a www. prefix in this day & age is
>> [redacted] stuck in the 90's, dude. Like retro!
>
> Hardly.
>
> It's not unusual to get 'free' web space from your ISP. My web  
> space at my ISP is at
> www.<mydomain>.<myisp>.co.uk
> If you omit the 'www.' you get my desktop Mac at home. If my ISP  
> gave my free web space the short name, I wouldn't be able to access  
> my home network from outside, either by http or by ssh.
>
> <mydomain>.<myisp>.co.uk is the correct name to resolve to the IP  
> address for my ISP connection. My ISP traps the 'www' prefix and  
> points it at their webserver instead.

That's a fairly unusual case, and you can hardly deny that Demon are  
an old-skool ISP.

My comment was more in the case of hosted sites, eg: http:// 
www.ba.com http://www.yahoo.com in which the www. should be  
unnecessary (and requests should be redirected from those to http:// 
ba.com http://yahoo.com respectively)

Stroller.