CNAME for main domain

[Danny Mayer]

At 09:46 PM 11/27/02, Mark.Andrews at isc.org wrote:

> > At 07:58 PM 11/27/02, Mark.Andrews at isc.org wrote:
> > >         The "www" convention came well after HTTP was invented.
> >
> > True. TBL invented HTTP around 1989-1990. People were starting
> > to use the www convention for HTTP servers in 1993-1994. Before
> > that people just put up servers on any machine and referenced that.
> > It was years after that that people start to add A records to the
> > apex of the domain so that people didn't have to type in the www
> > part. I don't think it was common to do so before that.
> >
> > Danny
> >
>
>         A records at the apex of the zone were common to handle non
>         MX aware MTA's.  People just stopped accommodating broken
>         MTA's.

Interesting.

Back in 1997 the Island of Anguilla set up a Web server resulting in
the shortest URL in existence:     http://ai/
It's no longer there, but I still have the mail message about it dated
March, 1997.

Danny

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