Your browser will then show the Microsoft website. So if you open up a browser, and put in your browser will look up the IP addresses, choose one of the 6 available, connect to it and request the page. If you perform a DNS lookup of you typically see 6 IP addresses, as below:
Let’s take the Microsoft website as an example.
The reason being that some protocols, most notably HTTP behave differently depending on how you address them.
The traditional approach to a vulnerability scan or penetration test is to find the IP addresses that you want tested, throw them in and kick things off.īut doing a test based purely on IP addresses is a BAD IDEA and can often MISS THINGS.