[HamWAN PSDR] Radio World: Cause of Tiger Mountain Fire Disclosed

[Jeff Francis™]

It's not a router limitation, it's a matter of the website owner making the
effort to make sure that his webserver responds to www.domainname.com and
domainname.com in the same way (because by default, they do not, which is
correct behavior because these are two completely different domain names).
Typically, the hosting company will create a DNS A record for domainname.com,
then a CNAME record that points to the previous A record for
www.domainname.com (though there are certainly many variations on that
theme, depending on how your servers are configured). Then you just
configure Apache/IIS/whatever to respond to both domain names with the same
content. It's not a router issue, it's a laziness/awareness issue. And
enough people don't make the effort to get this right that it's always
worth checking for the behavior you expect before passing along a truncated
DNS name (ie, without the leading "www") and leading people to links that
don't work.

Jeff/N0GQ


On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 7:59 PM Tony Ross <w7efs at centurylink.net> wrote:

> The OP's published link worked fine here. One wonders why people haven't
> progressed beyond the 1990s "www" router limitations, so after verifying
> the server's capabilities I use
> http://radioworld.com/news-and-business/cause-of-tiger-mt-fire-disclosed
> to inform others.
>
>     Tony
>
> On 11/22/18 9:03 AM, Craig Davis wrote:
>
> Corrected link
>
>
> https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/cause-of-tiger-mt-fire-disclosed
>
>
>
> *From:* PSDR <psdr-bounces at hamwan.org> <psdr-bounces at hamwan.org> *On
> Behalf Of *Jamie Hughes
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 22, 2018 7:06 AM
> *To:* Puget Sound Data Ring <psdr at hamwan.org> <psdr at hamwan.org>
> *Subject:* [HamWAN PSDR] Radio World: Cause of Tiger Mountain Fire
> Disclosed
>
>
>
> Just in case you guys didn't see this.
>
> Radio World: Cause of Tiger Mountain Fire Disclosed.
>
>
>
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