Some websites need "www." in their domains to be opened.
Some, like Google, redirect us from "google.com" to "www.google.com"; but others, like NASA, don't do this and the website is only available when we type "www.nasa.gov".
So, OpenDNS will help us doing this! When the domain without the "www." is redirected to the OpenDNS Guide, OpenDNS will check if the website is available with the "www." and, if available, will redirect us.
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Very annoying! Ebay has occasionally had glitches with their www. setup, so ebay.com.au redirects then to an opendns search (while www.ebay.com.au works)! Come on - that is just appalling!
Another Example; zodttd.com -> redir. to search. www.zodttd.com/ works fine.
www is obsolete, it is not technically required.
If a particular site differs from when you insert NO subdomain and you insert www., then that site is not complying to the dns standards. :
I guess openDNS could append, but browsers usually do it anyway.
written by mikeybenson 518 days ago
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No. www is different than without. This is not a DNS hosts job. It should remain in the hands of the domain owner.
Auto "www." could break some systems and is a bad idea at the DNS level. For example, a server may have a web server at www.example.com and a mail server at example.com with different IP addresses.
written by César de Tassis Filho 480 days ago
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az000001,
This should be redirected by guide.opendns.com.
Look:
nasa.gov has address 208.67.217.132
nasa.gov mail is handled by 10 ndmsnpf02.ndc.nasa.gov.
(There are more MX records...)
NASA does not have a "A" adress in "nasa.gov" domain, and is redirected to OpenDNS guide. OpenDNS Guide does not affect "MX" records.
I think this would be a nice enhancement. Some websites do require the www because they did not setup their dns properly. An A record is different than a MX record so i dont see how Cesar's example applies. One example is dnsbl.com. There is no dnsbl.com A record. If a user types dnsbl.com in the address bar, they get an error stating that the page is not loading. It would be nice if OpenDNS would search for the www record if the TLD A record does not exist.
written by César de Tassis Filho 190 days ago
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That`s what I was trying to say. I was just telling az000001 how this would not affect MX records.
yeah sorry. i named the wrong person. you are exactly right cesar.
written by César de Tassis Filho 181 days ago
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Xaroya,
When there is NO "A" record for a domain, even without this "Auto www." system implemented, OpenDNS redirects you to a Guide page.
Example: http://nasa.gov/ is redirected to http://guide.opendns.com/?url=nasa.gov
So, I just want that OpenDNS Guide autoredirect http://guide.opendns.com/?url=nasa.gov to http://www.nasa.gov/
OpenDNS already does something like this with shortcuts. Look: http://shortcut/ -> http://guide.opendns.com/?url=shortcut -> http://yourshortcut.com/
So, there is no reason not to implement this feature. OpenDNS already puts "A" records to non-valid hosts and hosts without an IP.
This is a great idea, I hate typing in wwww every time. http://www.nodents.com
another problem is with the blocked domains. if you block break.com, you can still get through by typing www.break.com
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another idea that very similar to mine on the same topic (sites can't resolve proper and while domain tagging http://google.co.uk maybe on occurances be wrong when www.google.co.uk right