=IP Addresses=It can sometimes be useful to have the IP address of nice nameservers. Using VT nameservers can, for example, solve an ISP's meddling in your Firefox address bar/Google I'm feeling lucky magic redirects. The addresses for VT's nameservers are: * 198.82.247.66* 198.82.247.98* 198.82.247.34 <!-- They took this offline :( #REDIRECT [[httpInfrastructure://rdweb.cns.vt.edu/public/notes/dns/ Optimization Map] --> =www. Required for Subdomains=Requiring <code>www.</code> in front of 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]. =External Links=* [http://no-www.org/ www. is deprecated.] [[Category:Campus computing resources]][[Category:Campus bugs]][[Category:Needs restoration]]