Help me understand ping

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Help me understand ping

Inner pages vs home

jbinbpt

11:21 am on Jul 28, 2009 (gmt 0)

Something I never tried before...
When I ping a site from the cmd prompt, I get the assigned IP address. If I ping an inner page I get a different IP.

When I ping inner pager on multiple sites I get the same IP.
#1 www.example.com (assigned IP OK)
#2 www.example.com/index.html (A different IP)
#3 www.example2.com/index.html (same response as #2)

What am I seeing?

bill

2:00 am on Jul 29, 2009 (gmt 0)

Maybe they have some sort of load sharing system in place.

jbinbpt

10:47 am on Jul 29, 2009 (gmt 0)

I get the same inner IP on all sites I try, from my own to WebmasterWorld. Is it my machines, my router, The way it is supposed to be?

Just weird.

JS_Harris

12:21 pm on Jul 29, 2009 (gmt 0)

Apparently the IP is assigned to the root domain, anything else confuses the cmd prompt perhaps? Never tried it.