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Looks like just misconfigured web server. www.nsa.gov works fine vs. nsa.gov times out. Edit: www goes to an Akamai CDN vs bare domain goes to a straight IP ad
by ralphshao 13y ago
Looks like just misconfigured web server. www.nsa.gov works fine vs. nsa.gov times out.
Edit: www goes to an Akamai CDN vs bare domain goes to a straight IP address.
- rublind 13y agoI hate it when people do this. Can we just pretend www doesn't exist anymore?
- eksith 13y agoServers with archaic configurations are quite difficult to change like that. Besides, I can reasonably assume the NSA, like most major government agencies, uses some wonky, overly complicated rats' nest of a CMS that croaks with/out the www.
- ecaron 13y agoThe problem I've always had with this is that DNS root levels (., no www) can't be a CNAME - unless there are any DNS gurus in the audience that can point to some alternate configuration I've overlooked.
- wahnfrieden 13y agoNo, you're right - it's a serious limitation. Ultimately just a trade-off to consider. As with anything, neither is obviously superior.
- marshray 13y agoYou can always just serve a redirect to www.example.com. Doesn't have to be a high-powered redundant server or anything (just secure).
- ericcoleman 13y agoWe force the www. at work because of DNS limitations.
- unfasten 13y agoNASA is also configured this way. It drives me nuts because half the time when I want to visit NASA's site I type `nasa.gov` and get nothing until I remember they need the `www.`. It might just be common to how some government sites are configured. Clickable links: http://nasa.gov/ http://nasa.gov/ http://www.nasa.gov/ http://www.nasa.gov/
- mcpoulet 13y agoHere is a NASA article about why they don't have the redirection : http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/nasadotgov/posts/post_1306860816073.html http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/nasadotgov/posts/post_13068608...