Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
If I type the IP directly into the browser, I can get the datacenter results that I expect. Yet, entering google.com in the browser always switches to www.google.com
Normally, I couldn't care less, except that 64.233.187.99 shows (what I think) is a more relevant index for what I'm searching for, and 72.14.205.99 is an artifact of the "massive serps change" that was long discussed during the last couple of weeks.
Anyway, maybe this irrelevant but I just thought it was interested that "www vs non-www" also seems to apply to google itself.
For example:
bash-3.00$ nslookup google.com
Server: 10.249.28.13
Address: 10.249.28.13#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 64.233.167.99
Name: google.com
Address: 64.233.187.99
Name: google.com
Address: 72.14.207.99
bash-3.00$
This will insure that even HTTP 1.0 and 0.9 clients will get the correct URL in the browser bar.
Hitting any of my servers you could see 100’s of different IP’s show up under the same domain name. Its just how we handle huge volumes of traffic.
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