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Do they really? It seems more likely that they'd simply use a wildcard.
by cmelbye 14y ago
Do they really? It seems more likely that they'd simply use a wildcard.
- tmx 14y agoThat'll teach me to post late at night. I forgot wildcards existed. I was thinking that (if I built tumblr) they would do subdomain searching at the DNS level to avoid hitting their database. Makes it even worse if they are using wildcards.
- X-Istence 14y agoBut if you don't publish an A record you get an ugly browser error message, whereas publishing the wildcard gives the user a notice saying that no such blog exists.