Strange URL

[James A Griffin]

Behrooz Hadavi wrote:
> 
> I have a user who is trying to access to a URL on the Internet.
> 
> The URL is http://www.prometheus@gwu.edu
The domain part is just -----------^^^^^^^

The "www.prometheus" play the part of a "user ID".

> 
> My DNS server is unable to resolve the request. Any comments or
> suggestions are highly appreciated.
> 

Try to resolve just the domain part, for example:

[artch at sparta artch]$ dig gwu.edu

; <<>> DiG 9.2.0rc6 <<>> gwu.edu
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14766
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 1
 
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gwu.edu.                       IN      A
 
;; ANSWER SECTION:
gwu.edu.                7071    IN      A       128.164.127.131
 
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
gwu.edu.                7072    IN      NS      ns2.gwu.edu.
gwu.edu.                7072    IN      NS      auth4.dns.rcn.net.
gwu.edu.                7072    IN      NS      ns.gwu.edu.
 
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
auth4.dns.rcn.net.      172671  IN      A       207.172.3.22
 
;; Query time: 41 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct 10 11:04:15 2001
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 123

FWIW, my Netscape browser has no problem with the URL.

Jim
> Behrooz.