[AusNOG] Incorrect DNS setup

[James Andrewartha]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:32:51AM +1000, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> > It isn't so much as 'incorrect' as convention and arbitrary.
> > 
> > 'www' serves no purpose whatsoever...  and I am actually quite happy when i see a '<domain>.com.au' on a bus or advert with no 'www'.
> 
> You either specify www.domain.com.au or http://domain.com.au/.
> 
> Specifying only domain.com.au leaves you in the middle about the
> protocols used.  (Yes, education of the masses went out of the door
> when networking became hard. Let's browse seven.ninemsn.yahoo.com.au)

The fact is HTTP is the default protocol these days. Recent versions of 
Chrome don't even display http:// any more for most websites, although 
https:// is still shown.

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/fresh-coat-of-chrome.html

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