Improving /etc/motd and ANSI

[Julian H. Stacey]

=?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wrote:
> Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org> writes:
> > One comment on this.. you can use convenience urls:
> >  http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/
> >  http://www.freebsd.org/faq/
> 
> You can even drop the www in front...

Best keep www. prepended :

A decade or so back I noticed http://freebsd.org answered as well
as http://www.freebsd.org & so I started dropping the www, but
webmaster@ corrected me, pointing out some of the freebsd host[s]
answering the DNS A record for the cluster might then or in future
not be served by httpd.

( Similarly, I'm gradually restoring the www. prefix I previously
stripped off some of my own
  http://www.berklix.com URLs, as I've realised there may be times
  when I want browsers to access only the www DNS A rec. httpd
  served subset of my berklix.com cluster  (eg when I'm reconfiguring/
  upgrading one host etc) )

I believe though some browsers automatically prepend a www. [if original
URL first fails?] but some do not prepend www.

Cheers,
Julian
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