Get MS to donate money to FreeBSD

[Darren Pilgrim]

Wille Harald <harald.wille at students.jku.at> wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 01:28:14PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:28:14 -0700
>> From: Darren Pilgrim <dmp at pantherdragon.org>
>> To: Keith Pitcher <kpitcher at locallink.net>
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>> Subject: Re: Get MS to donate money to FreeBSD
>> 
>> Keith Pitcher <kpitcher at locallink.net> wrote:
>> 
>> >Today we got this letter from Microsoft promoting http://getbettermail.com.
>> 
>> I get "No web site is configured at this address"?
>
>http://getbettermail.com instead of http://getbettermail.com.
>
>without the "." :)

First, the URL I gave my browser didn't contain a trailing period.

Second, a FQDN has a trailing period, so even if the URL my browser got was
"http://www.getbettermail.com./" it should have been resolved properly.  The
browser I use (Opera) does resolve FQDNs properly.  The problem is with the
server hosting getbettermail.com.  IIS fails to properly interpret the trailing
period and returns the "No web site configured" error.  Of course, Apache
doesn't have this problem.

FWIW, www.getbettermail.com seems to have come alive again.