DNS letting computers know what they're supposed to do!

[Mark Andrews]

> How's it going everyone,
> 
> 
> Is it possible for DNS to communicate to a server that it just served a
> request for, as to what domain it was that was being queried?
> I.e. if groovygoogle.com points to say, 232.65.12.88, and I ftp to
> groovygoogle.com, is there any way for the ftp server on 232.65.12.88
> to know that the request was for "groovygoogle.com", instead of any
> other domain it might be serving?

	No.  Nor would you want to do this.  There is a massive
	race condition here.
 
> (WITHOUT taking advantage of any stuff the higher level protocols like
> FTP may provide, it must be a stack-level OR a software-level thing, if
> you know what I mean).
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 
> Ze Knowmad.
> 
> 
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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