multiple DNS

[Barry Margolin]

In article <002701bf0ab7$78f2e360$0101a8c0 at p166>,
J.M. Roth <jmroth at vo.lu> wrote:
>
>First a special thanks to B.J. for helping me out with my previous problem.
>
>Now, I'm wondering if the following is possible...
>
>
>(we got 1 public IP address, currently)
>
>when I traceroute to any domain pointing to that IP f.e.
>company118.com or company2000.com 
>it ends up showing the main site (company.com) and not the tracerouteded
>one on the last hop
>
>just wondering if it was possible to make a distinction there
>
>especially since i have set up all the PTR records and stuff for the
>other domains
>virtual web / ftp works well but the underlying service that send out the
>hostname to a traceroute f.e. don't seem to care

Traceroute just does a reverse lookup and displays the first one in the
response.  It makes no attempt to scan the list of names just in case one
of them happens to match the name you typed.

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