Re: Web Page Naming

[Ajit Warrier <unixajit yahoo com>]

For any web page to be found it needs to be resolved
into an IP address. Your page is getting resolved into
an IP address because your service provider is doing
that for you. However it is resolving
brad.mugleston.home.attbi.com into the IP address and
not www.brad.mugleston.home.attbi.com. Hence if
someone types www.brad.mugleston.home.attbi.com,
naturally it will not resolve. CLear, so far?

On the other hand, when a browser cannot find a site
(i.e. cannot resolve a particular name to an IP
address), it tries to do things like putting a "www"
before it and then searching again. This is because of
the way the browser has been programmed. Now, if there
_is_ a match for www.ThatDomain.com, the browser will
just hook you up to that site.

Hope that was clear.

Ajit


--- "Mugleston, Brad" <brad mugleston gwl com> wrote:
> I designed my first web page
> http://brad.mugleston.home.attbi.com 
> 
> When I tell people the name some people want to type
> in www at the
> beginning.  I'd never known it before but if you add
> www to a site name that
> doesn't really have a www at the beginning it isn't
> found but if you type
> google.com it will find www.google.com I realize
> that must be in the naming
> convention but can someone, in simple terms, explain
> why?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
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