[LA.pm] The odds of finger games

[Scott Francis]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:19:01PM -0800, e at arix.com said:
> > It's a DOMAIN, not a machine with an IP address
> 
> sure, but those are details that matter little.  if I'm making an http
> request from a domain, do I really care which host is serving it? and if 99%
> of the time the host is always called the same, why should I bother typing
> its name?

Because making a request for http://domain.tld MAKES NO SENSE. Any more than
making a request for http://.gov makes any sense. Sure, it typically works,
but one shouldn't expect it to. It's a hack, and one that goes against both
common sense and DNS RFCs, I might add.

> if you had several hosts within a domain that all serve stuff on http I can
> understand you'd need to type the host name but even then a default is nice.

It may be nice, but it's inaccurate and leads to confusion of this very sort.
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Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net
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