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Re: octave.org v www.octave.org


From: Deepak, R. (Masatran, R.)
Subject: Re: octave.org v www.octave.org
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 02:20:13 +0530

* John W. Eaton <address@hidden> 2005-05-12
> On 11-May-2005, Mike Miller wrote:
> | It looks like http://octave.org/ used to work, and I linked my pages to it 
> | that way, but now I have to use http://www.octave.org/ instead because 
> | octave.org stopped working.  Can't we have it both ways?  I can switch 
> | links to www.octave.org of course if that is now preferred.
> 
> If it did work in the past, I think that either a CNAME or an A record
> would have been in the DNS maps.  I'm pretty sure there has never been
> an A record in the maps for any .octave.org addresses, and there is
> currently no CNAME record for octave.org.  Anyway, I didn't request
> any changes to the maps.  Does it really matter?  I don't think we
> ever advertised http://octave.org.  Was there some point when that was
> the name displayed by the web server?  If so, I don't think it was
> intentional.

Most free softwares have their homepage available, without the "www."
prefix, at <http://example.org/>, for example:
1. <http://perl.org/>
2. <http://apache.org/>
3. <http://bsd.org/>

These are also available with the "www." prefix. To maintain consistency,
the site ought to be accessible at <http://octave.org> also.
-- 
Deepak, R. (Masatran, R.) <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>



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