Are Facebook "Networks" Domains?

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

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.

--
David M (dmacchiarolo)

On Aug 9, 11:08 pm, pbd22 <dush...@gmail.com> 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.