Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Mailing list confusion Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:47:23 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050324102653.18B5B210165@warserver.warande.net> Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Mar 2005 17:47:26.0558 (UTC) FILETIME=[8ABB2FE0:01C53099] ----Original Message---- >From: Arend-Jan Westhoff >Sent: 24 March 2005 10:27 > (Btw is apparently a different -- may > be more proper(?) -- name to refer to the location of the Cygwin archive > (currently at IP 12.107.209.250).) sourceware.org == cygwin.com == sources.redhat.com == gcc.gnu.org; these names are all DNS aliases for each other. However, it is *not* 'more proper' to use sourceware.org to refer to the cygwin site. You should use the name for the site you actually want to see. Compare http://cygwin.com/ and http://sourceware.org/ and you'll see that they're very different. Although the names all resolve to the same IP address, the webserver on that machine looks at the name in the URL[*] to decide which front page to display. Various other pages are served from different sources according to what FQDN you use for the machine - e.g. if you go to http://cygwin.com/lists.html you get a different page from http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html. If you go to http://cygwin.com/ml, you get the same list of mailing lists as at http://sourceware.org/ml, but if you go to http://gcc.gnu.org/ml, you get redirected to http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html. cheers, DaveK [*] http-pedants can argue over whether it's looking at the name in the url or the name in the Host: header; I'll just observe that the host header is generated by the browser cracking the URL anyway. -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/