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[-] grandkaiser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They don't know unless the DNS server tells them. For example, a very popular webhost Akamai uses a complex DNS + web hosting suite (DNS edgesuit to be exact) to send that type of data to the web servers. It can also allow for many many other features.

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