<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Noggers,<div><br></div><div>Firstly I would like to apologise for going a-wall postal on you all yesterday... and a big thanks to those who off list posted me to discuss last mile setups and what not, and generally giving me a helping knowledgeable hand :)</div><div><br></div><div>So heres my post for today:</div><div><br></div><div>Very frequently I trawl around and go to peoples websites (especially when I see an email on ausnog with a domain I haven't been to attached to it ;P ) </div><div><br></div><div>I have done this again this morning and it got me thinking, how come a lot of people have these two cases:</div><div><br></div><div>A) I navigate to <a href="http://blah.com.au">blah.com.au</a> and is goes "can't connect to this server" I append www. to the domain (it ends up being <a href="http://www.blah.com.au">www.blah.com.au</a>) and I get their website.</div><div><br></div><div>or </div><div><br></div><div>B)The reverse of this, I navigate to <a href="http://www.blah.com.au">www.blah.com.au</a> and it says "Can't connect to server", but I go to <a href="http://blah.com.au">blah.com.au</a> and it is all cool.</div><div><br></div><div>What I am wondering is:</div><div><br></div><div>A) Why do people leave have these cases?</div><div><br></div><div>B) Where did the use of appending www. to the front of things originate from?</div><div><br></div><div>C) also I see sometimes www1. or www2. on some websites, can someone explain these to me?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks guys,</div><div>Hope your all having a nice monday morning.</div><div><div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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