Why do host & dig command line utilities return multiple IP addresses for a website?
by bcsm from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5MFG1)
Hi,
Some websites like google produce a host output like this:
Is it to do with the website being hosted on multiple servers? But then surely google would produce a large list of IPs?
I use netlify to host my website, so I don't actually know how it is actually physically hosted.
Thank you for your time.
Some websites like google produce a host output like this:
www.google.com has address 172.217.169.68Whereas my website and some others i've tried, e.g linuxquestions are more like this:
www.google.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1450:4009:819::2004
www.linuxquestions.org.cdn.cloudflare.net has address 104.24.136.8dig produces similar results, but host has clearer output for this.
www.linuxquestions.org.cdn.cloudflare.net has address 104.24.137.8
www.linuxquestions.org.cdn.cloudflare.net has address 172.67.81.99
www.linuxquestions.org.cdn.cloudflare.net has IPv6 address 2606:4700:20::ac43:5163
www.linuxquestions.org.cdn.cloudflare.net has IPv6 address 2606:4700:20::6818:8808
www.linuxquestions.org.cdn.cloudflare.net has IPv6 address 2606:4700:20::6818:8908
Is it to do with the website being hosted on multiple servers? But then surely google would produce a large list of IPs?
I use netlify to host my website, so I don't actually know how it is actually physically hosted.
Thank you for your time.