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RE: Mailing list confusion
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:47:23 -0000
- Subject: RE: Mailing list confusion
----Original Message----
>From: Arend-Jan Westhoff
>Sent: 24 March 2005 10:27
> (Btw <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> is apparently a different -- may
> be more proper(?) -- name to refer to the location of the Cygwin archive
> (currently at IP 12.107.209.250).)
sourceware.org == cygwin.com == sources.redhat.com == gcc.gnu.org; these
names are all DNS aliases for each other. However, it is *not* 'more
proper' to use sourceware.org to refer to the cygwin site. You should use
the name for the site you actually want to see.
Compare http://cygwin.com/ and http://sourceware.org/ and you'll see that
they're very different. Although the names all resolve to the same IP
address, the webserver on that machine looks at the name in the URL[*] to
decide which front page to display. Various other pages are served from
different sources according to what FQDN you use for the machine - e.g. if
you go to http://cygwin.com/lists.html you get a different page from
http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html. If you go to http://cygwin.com/ml, you get
the same list of mailing lists as at http://sourceware.org/ml, but if you go
to http://gcc.gnu.org/ml, you get redirected to
http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html.
cheers,
DaveK
[*] http-pedants can argue over whether it's looking at the name in the url
or the name in the Host: header; I'll just observe that the host header is
generated by the browser cracking the URL anyway.
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