Differences in how browsers resolve names
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Mon Nov 25 05:37:54 UTC 2002
At 06:56 PM 11/24/02, Ben Keepper wrote:
>Actually I am not sure if this is a browser or OS issue.
It's a browser issue.
> From Linux w/ Mozilla or Galeon, I can type:
>
>sandicor.com
>
>as a URL and successfully get their main webserver.
They are adding in the rest of the URL. sandicor.com does not have an
A record. There is an A record for www.sandicor.com. Mozilla is doing
something behind your back.
>But from IE on Windows2000, that doesn't work, I get redirected to IE's
>"can not find that host page".
Which is correct.
>(While composing this message, I installed Mozilla on the Win2K box and it
>works the same way as Mozilla on Linux does, so this is an OS issue)
>
You mean a browser issue.
>This is regardless of if I am using regular DNS, or sandicor's root DNS
>(which is under my control, Bind 9.2).
This is only a DNS issue in the sense that there's no A record for
sandicor.com.
>It works fine for IE users if you type:
>www.sandicor.com
>
>User with IE used to be able to get to there main webserver by typing in
>just the network name, but after I brought up there own DNS servers, no
>go.
>
>What am I doing wrong?
To be truthful, you should be putting in the whole URL:
http://www.sandicor.com/ and not expect the brower to add things
for you.
Add an A record to the the root of the zone:
@ IN A 66.237.32.36
www IN CNAME @
and remove the old www record, update the SOA serial number and reload
the zone.
Danny
>TIA,
>
>Ben
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