Re: [SAGE] Eliminating the pointless "www"

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+sage@snew.com>]

Quoting Greg Rose (ggr@qualcomm.com):
> At 10:27 AM 11/23/2002 -0800, Jim Lawson wrote:
> >I think Jon Lasser has proposed the obvious (and simplest) solution:
> >have the firewall preform intelligent forwarding.
> 
> Well, the other simple solution is to have usenix.org run a tiny web server 
> that issues redirects to www.usenix.org in response to all requests. Since 
> the vast bulk of people are used to going to www anyway, it would add 
> almost no load.

Well, a special program I've written called "inetd" calling
a script with, hmmm, a 1 seconds sleep and a cat(1) of the
redirect usually does the trick.

At this time, yeah, to many people the "internet" means the
web.  And for A record=domain.com, there's no service really more
used than http and no compelling reason NOT to aim it at the
web server.  If only to preserve my "w" key :)


Someone points out that SRV records SHOULD be used and, (IIRC) while
they only became RFC standards fairly recently, they were bounced
around for long enough that  should have been used by browsers back
in the Netscape 2.x/early spyglass aka ie days.  And by now, they'd
all be just happy.  And we would be using round robin DNS and always
needing load balancers.

Anyone feel like getting support for SRV records into Mozilla :)