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2 points by orasiscore ↗ HN
It is possible to have to access to a subdomain and not the doamin itself. For eg you have access to rope.example.com but if you try example.com, then you connection time out. Any explanations, thanks

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yes very possible, and very common.

you are asking for something akin to root/elevated privilege access. do you own, or control rope.example.com, or example.com ? because that would help access a lot.

Sure. The two addresses go to two different web servers. One is up and the other is down.
For such topics you may want to lurk on ServerFault [1] and SuperUser [2] to get more detailed information. If you gave an example of your intended end goal it might help answer the question as this could be interpreted as a DNS, cloud or web server question.

The title of your post should probably be something along the lines of "Ask HN: Subdomain limitations and capabilities?". If you click edit you can change it.

[1] - https://serverfault.com/

[2] - https://superuser.com/