On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 16:50:11 -0500 "Michael Havens" wrote: > > Why could I ping things with out the www but not with the www? > The example I was given was 'ping -f sco.com'. The first thing I did wrong was misspelled sco.com as scco.com and it pinged away. Then I added the www and it wouldn't ping. I then pulled up the page with the www and there it was. So then what.... was there a redirection from the one w/o the www to the one with? What is the unix trace route command? > :-)Mike(-: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: JD Austin > Sent: 2/5/2004 4:29:49 PM > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: ping -f address.com > > www is just a subdomain of a domain. www.site.com and site.com can have > completely different addresses. do a dig if you want to and see if the www and the name without hte subdomain are the same -- jason pearl ++++++++++++++++++ "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"-Tupac ++++++++++++++++++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZ registered linux user #307811 RHEL WS 3.0 Linux Machine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 ASUS SK8N http://counter.li.org uptime