在 2011年4月23日星期六 UTC+8上午8:22:06，Ben Schmidt写道： > Jason wrote: > > There is no A record for the domain name vim.org. That is, > > this link shouldn't work: > > > > http://vim.org/ > > That's correct, actually. Not only doesn't it work, but it shouldn't > work. It is a shame people have abused DNS and expect it to work. > > Marc wrote: > > There have been lot's of discussion about this on the mailinglist. > > That this topic is being written about again and again is a reason to > > change it. IMHO. > > To some extent, I agree. It'd be nice to 'fix' this, just to silence the > noise on the mailing list. > > But how? > > We can't CNAME it; it would be against spec, and would break things. We > can't add an A record, because sourceforge might change it under us > and/or we don't know what magic they might be doing with load balancing, > etc. that we would irresponsibly bypass if we did that. > > Perhaps the simplest thing is to get some cheap 'DNS hosting' that > offers a 'redirect' function. Basically the function just has a server > listen on port 80 for requests and return a 3xx (preferably 301 in our > case) redirect (to http://www.vim.org/ in our case) whenever it gets > one. No smart URL rewriting or anything. We might already have it (it > commonly is included with domain names in my experience) and just need > to set it up. If not, in my experience, it's very cheap, something like > a year's worth of hosting for the price of a glass of fruit juice. > Because it's actually a webserver, not done in DNS, it bypasses the > DNS-related difficulties, and because it's such a simple task and it > should be low-traffic anyway, loading isn't an issue. > > Ben.
I know wwwizer provides a server for this, just point vim.org to 174.129.25.170, it'll do a 301 redirection to www.vim.org -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
