I previously asked about topics in Notice 1400. I had gone to
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13 years ago
I previously asked about topics in Notice 1400. I had gone to
It's the same website. It's just laziness on the part of whoever programs the site
look at what they mentioned. Today, in reading closely, I
This is because the DNS has a mapping for
I'll email the IRS helpdesk.
look at what they mentioned. Today, in reading closely, I
My guess: The person who wrote Notice 1400 foolishly assumed that irs.gov is like most sites where the www is optional for the visitor. It may even be optional inside the IRS intranet so that author's assumption would appear valid from his/her desktop.
. I wonder why they write
Or name a town with out naming the state, (i.e. Eureka )
Or write a book without an index or bibliography.
Or write an instruction like " turn the knob slowly but be careful to turn it only in the correct direction" The end.
The writer knows the answer, but is unable to fathom that someone else doesn't have the part they leave out at their fingertips...
It''s better to give too much information than not enough
-----if you expect someone to act on it.
Andy in Eureka, Texas
------------------------------------- And it still doesn't so they didn't fix it. In DNS it would look like this
irs.gov
The "www" stands for a directory (folder) on the server's real or virtual drive. irs.gov stands for an ip address. If you just go to the ip address, you get nothing. You have to go the correct folder to get the file for the home page (a default that loads automatically).
So for you to get a file off a web server, you need a url like this
That's not how it works. Every DNS name corresponds to a network IP address, DNS has no concept of a "folder". What the IP address corresponds to at the server level is outside the scope of DNS.
This is off-topic for taxes, but I didn't want to leave this uncorrected.
See
-Mark Bole
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