[GreenKeys] ITTY - with no caps!

[Steve Garrison]

That's more than a good explanation!  And more than enough to make the average user go, "Huh, what did he say?"

Steve G./N4TTY
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> On Mar 1, 2018, at 12:09 AM, Paul Heller <paul0926 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave,  
> 
> Ha! I tried to keep it simple.  I suspect, but don’t know for sure, that 216.146.39.125 might be my DNS provider. They are the ones actually making the web hop. For ease of explanation I include them as part of the “internet” ( what exactly is the internet anyhow?). So they registered internet-tty.net (my A-record) around the web. All internet-tty.net traffic goes to them.  The catch the url and forward it on. They do the translation. I was using CNAMES, but I did not want to do the lookups myself so I took the easy way out. 
> 
> At least that’s how I understand it...you probably know more than me!
> 
> Paul
> W2TTY
> 
> 
> 
>> On Feb 28, 2018, at 9:38 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Paul Heller wrote:
>>> 
>>> These three definitions are called web-hops.  The internet KNOWS to translate itty.internet-tty.net to internet-tty.net:8000/ITTY and so forth. [...]
>> 
>> Err, how?
>> 
>>    ozzie:~ dave$ host itty.internet-tty.net
>>    itty.internet-tty.net has address 216.146.39.125
>> 
>> The only redirection would be in your router: 80 => 8000 etc, with a CGI redirection from there to "/ITTY".
>> 
>> You can tell me; I am (or was) a network engineer :-)
>> 
>> -- 
>> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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