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| Red Squirrel - Feb-14-2004 server time |
| Yeah and I think it could be that mozilla is adding .com by default. It does not work in IE. |
| Chris Vogel - Feb-14-2004 server time | ||
Yes, that's what Firefox does by default. When I enter those .com-less URLs (URIs, should I say?  ), I get a Google search for the URL minus the http:// part. But that's because I changed a setting to make Google use search instead of I'm Feeling Lucky for the address bar... |
| manadren - Feb-14-2004 server time |
| I tried it again. I got the same site, apparently it's on sourceforge and has to do with an Open Source project called Galaxy Communicator. This time however, I noticed it was going through google, so I'm assuming that Firefox must simply be showing the first result from a google search for the term. |
| Red Squirrel - Feb-14-2004 server time |
| I noticed allot of others work too, but it seems to be intermittent. Maybe it's not real, but it's just some kind of caching issue on isps or something. Or maybe it works the same way as on a LAN, you just specify a computer name, and you can access it anywhere on the network, but it's not "registered" anywhere on the network. |
| Red Squirrel - Feb-14-2004 server time |
| weird, since I can't access it anymore. |
| manadren - Feb-14-2004 server time |
| Strange indeed. When I went there, it brought up a class listing for SK.gnome.dwarf.main.MainServer. Methinks it's not as much a domain, but rather a browser keyword perhaps? |
| Red Squirrel - Feb-14-2004 server time |
| I've been playing with linux so figured I'd call it "mainserver" so to see if apache was running I typed it in the address bar: http://mainserver But some company actually has that registered. Not sure how they managed to do that without using one of the root dns servers (.com, .net etc) but they did. |
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