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The public nsa.gov site is just another government website. It's not like they're running it out of one of their secret data centers.
Agreed. I commented on the organization. One expects the NSA to provide a sub-par post-mortem. a) it is the NSA and b) it is a "marketing" website I'm not sure what utility www.nsa.gov provides beyond a mission statement. Never was curious before, now I am. :) -- edit: clarity
Nsa.gov is down
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Re: Nsa.gov is down
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right www.nsa.gov is up, but nsa.gov is not. How is that even possible? Shouldn't browser fill in www anyway?
nsa.gov and www.nsa.gov are two different hosts as far as DNS is concerned. They can and often do point to different places. This is a good example. www.nsa.gov is an alias to Akamai (a large CDN), and nsa.gov points directly to an NSA owned machine (because for technical reasons you can't have an alias or CNAME at the zone apex), people usually configure these machines to redirect to the www hostname. Browsers shoul…
This is nice to know (and to everyone who have answered me so far), thanks!
I always think www.domain.com resolves to one of the ips and domain.com should too. Thanks!