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=IP Addresses=Itcan sometimes be useful to have the IP address of nice nameservers.Using VT nameservers can, for example, solve an ISP's meddling in yourFirefox address bar/Google I'm feeling lucky magic redirects.
The addresses for VT's nameservers are:
<ul><li> * 198.82.247.66</li><li> * 198.82.247.98</li><li> * 198.82.247.34 </li></ul>!-- They took this offline :( [http://rdweb.cns.vt.edu/public/notes/dns/ Optimization Map] --> =www. Required for Subdomains=Requiring <code>www<code> in front of all subdomains is a known but ignored issue. Apparently nobody at CNS has bothered to fix it. Rumor has it that the utility of their 25-year-old maintenance scripts is to blame for this issue and other DNS complications like difficulty maintaining MX records. =External Links=* [http://no-www.org/ www. is deprecated.]
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