Sean Walther's Blog

Rant: Domain DNS Setup — not just www!

A problem that some websites have drives me crazy: some websites don’t setup their domain to work without WWW for their websites.  

What brought this into mind, is the lack of being able to go to http://fdic.gov/ … while http://www.fdic.gov/ works just fine.  

I don’t know of any good reason for this.  Maybe it’s easier to load balance with a subdomain, than try to handle “fdic.gov” while there are emails going to “fdic.gov”. 

I understand that the mail server is a different machine, great.  Reroute traffic depending on the ports, it’s not hard to filter potrs 25, 80, 443, 110, 143, 465, 585, 993, 995 to the correct machines.

I feel better now.

Tags: DNS, domain, fdic, rant, www

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