Re: [cobalt-users] not using "www"

[David Lucas <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:54 PM 3/20/2002, you wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been discussing the use of "www" in front of some
> of the domain-names I maintain. Is there a way
> to make Cobalt machines (RaQ 4 and Qube 3 in my case)
> *not* jump to setting a hostname in front of the domain?
> So that if I use
> http://domain.org
> that it doesn't change into
> http://www.domain.org
> all the time?

If you set your server up as
host: www
domain:  domain.com
alias: domain.com
You can then use www.domain.com and domain.com and have them work.  (it is 
partially based on the dns record though - if you only point www.domain.com 
at the ip then no it won't work, has nothing to do with the Raq.  If you 
point *.domain.com at the ip then ok)

> I'm not convinced the hosts are of use in my setups,
> and I want my domains to enjoy their short names,
> without the "www" in front of it.
> In a BSD environment which I also maintain, the host
> can be anything I want, or nothing at all, and the
> DNS-records have no problem dealing with this.
> http://domain.org does not need a host in front of it,
> http://*.domain.org all goes to the same A-record.

Works the same on a Raq4 for me.  If I type in domain.com, it will change 
to www.domain.com in the display because I set it up as I did above.

> Any tips on this highly appreciated,
>
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