Re: Handling 'www.' in a domain name

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Yes, you do.  All the names must be known to dns for the rest of the  
world to get the ip address of your machine.  It could be that your  
dns provider offers a *.foo.com service that maps all unknown names  
to a single ip address - but even then, dns is still being used.

- -Jason

On Nov 1, 2006, at 06:35 AM, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:05:44AM -0500, Brian Mastenbrook wrote:
> : With Araneida, you can use the reverse proxy handler to rewrite all
> : requests for 'foo.com' into 'www.foo.com' requests. Something  
> like this
> : actually matches every host it gets fed and turns it into your URL:
>
> Silly question: does this require anything special in how DNS  
> treats my domain
> name?  In other words, do I have to do anything else to get  
> 'beta.foo.com' to
> work if I have a site running 'www.foo.com'?
>
> Jonathon McKitrick
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