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trocadero | 7 years ago

Those go to the same place for me

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da_chicken|7 years ago

Not me.

http://www.pool.ntp.org/ redirects me to https://www.ntppool.org/en/.

http://pool.ntp.org/ takes me to an "It works!" default Apache 2 page for an Ubuntu installation. As the comment in the issue describes, http://pool.ntp.org/ takes you to a random ntp server.

If you want another example, try google.com using Google's own DNS:

  PS U:\> nslookup - 8.8.8.8
  Default Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
  Address:  8.8.8.8
  
  > google.com
  Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
  Address:  8.8.8.8
  
  Non-authoritative answer:
  Name:    google.com
  Addresses:  2607:f8b0:4009:810::200e
            172.217.8.206
  
  > www.google.com
  Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
  Address:  8.8.8.8
  
  Non-authoritative answer:
  Name:    forcesafesearch.google.com
  Addresses:  216.239.38.120
            216.239.38.120
  Aliases:  www.google.com
Even if you ultimately end up at the same site through redirects, you're clearly not going to the same site initially.

trocadero|7 years ago

>http://pool.ntp.org/ takes me to an "It works!" default Apache 2 page for an Ubuntu installation. As the comment in the issue describes, http://pool.ntp.org/ takes you to a random ntp server.

Either way, the ask was for a difference in www.example.com vs example.com. Not a difference in www.pool.example.com vs pool.example.com. In the latter case, the different subdomains will still be shown (AFAIK).

>Even if you ultimately end up at the same site through redirects, you're clearly not going to the same site initially.

Which is nothing that an end user is going to care about and doesn't provide an example to the asked question.

dsl|7 years ago

Some small subset of pool servers run an HTTP server that redirects you to www. Not all of them. You just got lucky.

Volundr|7 years ago

That's exactly right. www.pool.ntp.org is the project site. pool.ntp.org is for getting an NTP server. Which one you get will depend on your location and random chance. That server will run NTP, but what it happens to run on port 80, if anything, is up to the operator of the server.

euyyn|7 years ago

I must be lucky too, as I got the same result from both.

drb91|7 years ago

They definitely do not for me (ios).