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Gootik
Gootik

Reputation: 508

courious about server prefix routing

I just noticed a very interesting thing today, when I tried going to sfu.ca I would get server timeout where as www.sfu.ca would work perfectly.

I was wondering what could be causing this, is it because they manually have added www as a subdomain? Does the browser not default to www.* when no prefix is provided?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 62

Answers (1)

ddrace
ddrace

Reputation: 717

They're doing it wrong. sfu.ca should redirect to www.sfu.ca or vice-versa. An no, your browser doesn't automatically add the 'www'.

NSlookup for 'sfu.ca' gives me this:

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   sfu.ca
Address: 142.58.103.24
Name:   sfu.ca
Address: 142.58.190.137
Name:   sfu.ca
Address: 142.58.103.18

While doing the same for www.sfu.ca returns this:

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   www.sfu.ca
Address: 142.58.102.68

I prefer urls without the www. It's seems rather archaic. But I think it's best to have both options available.

Upvotes: 2

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