ping -f address.com

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 16:50:11 -0500
"Michael Havens" <bmike1@vei.net> 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

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