> The problem is only in seeing their own domain, hosted
> externally. All other browsing is fine. In the past I have
> modified the www entry to the external IP but now that IP
> fails from everywhere to a page instructing that the format
> is wrong and to add www. I believe this is coming from the
> hosting service, whom I believe has gone to virtual hosting.
> That is the external side of the problem.
The SME just redirects
www.domain.com to the specified IP instead of itself. So if the IP doesn't work, changing the www entry on the SME won't work. Unfortunately, I think it's as simple as that.
> Internally since touching the www entry a Win XP Pro client
> keeps on failing but adding automatically the extra www. Is
> this a Win XP thing, or a reaction to the remote web page
> instruction or caused by the modification of the hostname
> panel?
Bill Talcott wrote:
>
> With some browser settings, the browser itself will add
> common things like "www." and ".com" to the typed URL if it
> fails. That could be what's happening...
It can't really "react" to the webpage. There could be a script on the page that sends it to a different URL, but that would affect everyone, not just one PC. The hostname panel just affects what IP you're sent to when you type in that URL. It doesn't affect the URL in your browser at all. So I'd say it's just the browser adding it in an attempt to find "what you meant" since "what you typed" didn't work.
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