Why ww2 sub domains?

People running large(-ish) sites used to do this when they needed to break up the load between more than one server. One machine would be called www then the next one would be called www2, etc. Today, much better load balancing solutions are available that don’t require you to expose your internal machine naming conventions … Read more

GitHub Pages https/www Redirect

What worked for me: Change your custom domain to be prefixed with www., like this: Save the settings and wait until www.example.com resolves and works. Remove the www. prefix and save again. Wait for browser and DNS caches to invalidate. All combinations should lead to https://example.com/ and no SSL error should appear.

Meaning of the five fields of the ANSWER SECTION in dig query

Reference: http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch15/#answer and http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch8/a.html The first field is the NAME: The domain name being returned The second field (108 in your example) is the TTL in seconds. IN is the CLASS. Here, IN stands for Internet. A is the TYPE. Here, A stands for mapping a domain name to an IPv4 address. The last field … Read more

Mac Os X Terminal: How to view a domain’s zone file?

→ dig -t ANY stackoverflow.com ; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> -t ANY stackoverflow.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20242 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;stackoverflow.com. IN ANY ;; ANSWER SECTION: stackoverflow.com. 1202 IN A 64.34.119.12 … Read more

How to create own domain extension? [closed]

You can’t. Only IANA can. Management of most top-level domains is delegated to responsible organizations by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which operates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain Here’s a list of available TLDs: http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/ http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt