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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:20:47AM +0100, simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx said:
> Mark Fowler:
> > I hate software that doesn't map http://theirdomainname.com to
> > http://www.theirdomainname.com.
>=20
> simon-cozens.org is The Only A Record for my web site, and rightfully so.
> Why the hell do you think you need a www. to tell you you're getting the =
site
> via the World Wide Web? If it's a web server, where else is it going to b=
e?
> And given that you're using HTTP, what do you expect to come down the wir=
e?
> FTP?
this is fine, if you only have one machine in your domain. If you have, say,
a dozen (or a thousand) machines in simon-cozens.org, using the name of the
machine (or an alias for its function, like www. or ftp.) makes more sense.
I'm all in favor of less typing, and adding www. to the beginning of domain
names is usually redundant - but not always. (In a perfect world, we'd
use the name of the specific machine we were headed for -
eldwist.darkuncle.net serves my web and mail stuff, for instance - but that=
's
way too complicated for anybody but geeks to understand or remember.)
> What next? rsync://rsync.foo.com? Do you ssh to ssh.yourhost.yourdomain.n=
et?
if you have a specific machine in your domain that runs rsync, and the othe=
rs
do not, then yeah. Ditto for http and smtp. As for sshd, well, my opinion is
that all machines that offer remote access should run it, period. Which wou=
ld
make ssh.domain.tld confusing - you'd actually want ssh machine.domain.tld.
> Should file: URLs be redesignated file://file.localhost/... ? Hey, mom, I=
'm
> just connecting to redundancy://redundancy.redundancy.org/redundancy/
>=20
> Fuck "www.". Fuck it right up the fucking ass.
I think most of the complaints with DNS are not due to any particularly
glaring errors in design as much as to the way that user expectations and
common use have changed from when DNS was first created.
DNS is logical and hierarchical, as it should be. Users, however, are not.
I'm in favor of hacks like having an A record for a 2nd-level domain rather
than a specific machine, but I understand why it's a hack.
--=20
Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net
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