On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:08:07 +0000, pbd22 rearranged some electrons to
form:

> Hi.
>
> I am wondering if somebody wouldn't mind explaining to me how
> the Facebook "networks" work from a networking perspective?
> Iff I join a network, say, MIT on facebook it appears as:
> http:// mit . facebook . com . And caltech would be
> http:// caltech . facebook . com and so on. Does facebook have a
> dedicated server for each new "network" on its site. Are networks
> child domains? I'd appreciate it if somebody could explain the
> concepts here (I am actually building in Win Server 2003 but I know
> facebook is linux and am just trying to get my mind wrapped around the
> concepts here).
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Peter

Try reading:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/

for starters.

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David M (dmacchiarolo)

On Aug 9, 11:08 pm, pbd22 wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am wondering if somebody wouldn't mind explaining to me how
> the Facebook "networks" work from a networking perspective?
> Iff I join a network, say, MIT on facebook it appears as:
> http:// mit . facebook . com . And caltech would be
> http:// caltech . facebook . com and so on. Does facebook have a
> dedicated server for each new "network" on its site. Are networks
> child domains? I'd appreciate it if somebody could explain the
> concepts here (I am actually building in Win Server 2003 but I know
> facebook is linux and am just trying to get my mind wrapped around the
> concepts here).
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Peter

They are technically subdomains. The way Facebook uses the term
'network' is different than the TCP/IP way.
It's *kind of* like the difference between mail.google.com and
labs.google.com. Same site, different sections. That's a layman's way
of understanding it.