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How is a subdomain passed to the webserver?

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I know that dns resolves an address like example.com to an IP address like 11.22.33.44, but I'm a little confused about how subdomains are resolved, so that when you type http://subdomain.example.com, what actually gets passed to the server at 11.22.33.44? In other words, example.com = 11.22.33.44,…

Error Output

aaa.blogspot.com
bbb.blogspot.com
...millions more...
yyy.blogspot.com
zzz.blogspot.com

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Domains, Subdomains, Sub-Sub domains, and Sub(x)-sub-subdomains (made the last two up!), are treated in exactly the same way by DNS to an end user and a webserver. For example, the DNS server can return different results for , or . Now, as you are p…

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