Requiring <code>www.</code> in front of all many 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. Resolving this issue must be done individually at each department by addressing the problem to the relevant [http://groupw.cns.vt.edu/~benchoff/cgi-bin/ipr-dump-wrapper.cgi?style=wwr network liasion].