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%3e>
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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...
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>> 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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