[X4U] Leopard Issues

[David Ledger]

>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.

It may be unneccessary to use 'www' in many web based Internet 
services, but there are also others where http is not the primary 
purpose, and the short form should point to another service. You use 
such services all the time - DNS, NTP, proxy servers ...

David


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