@Claire,
 
It's one of those cases of "Read my blog on www.name-here.wordpress.com", you may want to detect all the sub-domains before the ones that will bring up a match and really matter (in this case name-here.wordpress.com). The rest of the www's is afternoon boredom I guess.

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Claire Njoki <clairenjoki@gmail.com> wrote:
I am a bit confused...

why would anyone want to type www.www.www.www.www.www.etc.etc.etc.whaever.com

?????

Claire.

On 10/31/10, kevin.ouma@gmail.com <kevin.ouma@gmail.com> wrote:
> ieru
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kago Kagichiri
> Sent:  30/10/2010, 11:17  pm
> To: Skunkworks Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Multiple WWW
>
>
> Interesting observation, I've also made another as relates to facebook.
>
> register.facebook.com opens in https mode always, that way you get your post
> data secure and there are NO ADS! cool!
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Frankline Chitwa
> <frank.chitwa@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Reminds me of my experimental days of looping a single network plug so as
>> to do all the dns stuff on one computer
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Michuki Mwangi
>> <michuki@swiftkenya.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Its called an asterisk function in DNS if you play around with it some
>>> more you can see that the following also resolves to something :)
>>>
>>> Mich:~ michuki$ dig there.is.no.noway.www.facebook.com any
>>>
>>> ; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P3 <<>> there.is.no.noway.www.facebook.com any
>>> ;; global options:  printcmd
>>> ;; Got answer:
>>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59615
>>> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 10, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>>>
>>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>>> ;there.is.no.noway.www.facebook.com. IN ANY
>>>
>>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>>> there.is.no.noway.www.facebook.com. 30 IN CNAME www.facebook.com.
>>> www.facebook.com.       500     IN      SOA     glb01.sf2p.tfbnw.net.
>>> hostmaster.facebook.com. 2008101826 10800 3600 604800 86400
>>> www.facebook.com.       505     IN      NS      glb01.ams1.tfbnw.net.
>>> www.facebook.com.       505     IN      NS      glb01.lhr1.tfbnw.net.
>>> www.facebook.com.       505     IN      NS      glb01.hkg1.tfbnw.net.
>>> www.facebook.com.       505     IN      NS      glb01.sf2p.tfbnw.net.
>>> www.facebook.com.       505     IN      NS      glb01.dfw1.tfbnw.net.
>>> www.facebook.com.       505     IN      NS      glb01.snc1.tfbnw.net.
>>> www.facebook.com.       505     IN      NS      glb01.ash1.tfbnw.net.
>>> www.facebook.com.       120     IN      A       69.63.189.31
>>>
>>> ;; Query time: 628 msec
>>> ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
>>> ;; WHEN: Thu Oct 28 13:27:41 2010
>>> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 313
>>>
>>> Have a great day.
>>>
>>> On 10/28/10 1:10 PM, Okechukwu wrote:
>>> > @Eric, please also pick up a book on DNS & BIND and see how you can do
>>> just
>>> > about anything under the sun to a domain name. www is just a record.
>>> >
>>> > ./Ok3ch
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Alex Kamiru <nderitualex@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>  This is not URL re-writing (which is done as web server level) but
>>> >> dns
>>> >> resource records entry manipulation.
>>> >>
>>> >> If you look at facebook case, we have a cname for to www (which could
>>> be
>>> >> automated via generate function in bind, possibly)
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>>> >> ;
>>> >>
>>> www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.facebook.com
>>> .
>>> >> IN A
>>> >>
>>> >> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.facebook.com
>>> .
>>> >> 30 IN CNAME www.facebook.com.
>>> >> www.facebook.com. 84 IN A 69.63.190.18
>>> >>
>>> >> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>>> >> www.facebook.com. 138 IN NS glb01.lhr1.tfbnw.net.
>>> >> www.facebook.com. 138 IN NS glb01.snc1.tfbnw.net.
>>> >> www.facebook.com. 138 IN NS glb01.ash1.tfbnw.net.
>>> >> www.facebook.com. 138 IN NS glb01.hkg1.tfbnw.net.
>>> >>
>>> >> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>>> >> glb01.ash1.tfbnw.net. 4922 IN A 69.63.185.11
>>> >> glb01.hkg1.tfbnw.net. 4922 IN A 69.63.185.86
>>> >> glb01.lhr1.tfbnw.net. 4922 IN A 69.63.191.91
>>> >> glb01.snc1.tfbnw.net. 4922 IN A 69.63.179.22
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> -----Original Message-----
>>> >> *From*: TheBigBoss <thebigboss@peperuka.com<
>>> TheBigBoss%20%3cthebigboss@peperuka.com<TheBigBoss%2520%253cthebigboss@peperuka.com>
>>> %3e>
>>> >>>
>>> >> *Reply-to*: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
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>>> >>>
>>> >> *Subject*: Re: [Skunkworks] Multiple WWW
>>> >> *Date*: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:30:07 +0300
>>> >>
>>> >> You'll be surprised to hear that a large proportion of webistes still
>>> fail
>>> >> at basic URL rewriting (www vs no-www) - a good exemple, try
>>> >> http://eliteken.com/ and would be (fail to understand why) to a Google
>>> >> Calendar page.
>>> >>
>>> >> There are people like me who rarely click on link but prefer copy and
>>> paste
>>> >> URL in short version without http:// and www
>>> >>
>>> >> Nonetheless, I don't do URL rewriting for nth level subdomain...
>>> >>
>>> >>   [image: TheBigBoss]  *TheBigBoss*
>>> >> *Nairobi, Kenya*
>>> >> *Email:* TheBigBoss@peperuka.com   [image: Peperuka]<
>>> http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/Peperuka/%7E6/3>
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>>> >> Suivez-moi: [image: Facebook]<
>>> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peperuka/278303802985>[image:
>>> >> Twitter] <http://twitter.com/Peperuka>
>>> >>
>>> >> On 28 October 2010 12:46, David Njuguna <dnjuguna@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> wildcard dns entry.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>  On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:36 PM, [ Brainiac ] <
>>> arebacollins@gmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> URL rewriting ?
>>> >>
>>> >>   cause all those are sub domains to the nth level. even www is a sub
>>> >> domain.:-)
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>   On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Erick Njenga <eriknjenga@gmail.com
>>> >
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>    Hi Skunks. I'm just curious as to how you can use multiple WWW
>>> portions
>>> >> of the url to access sites like facebook e.g.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> http://www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.www.facebook.com/
>>> >>
>>> >>    works the same as:
>>> >>
>>> >>    http://www.facebook.com/
>>> >>
>>> >>    but the same doesn't apply to other websites.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
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>>> >>
>>> >>
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>>> >>
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>>> >>
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