Help me understand ping

Inner pages vs home

[jbinbpt]

Something I never tried before...
When I ping a site from the cmd prompt, I get the assigned IP address. If I ping an inner page I get a different IP.

When I ping inner pager on multiple sites I get the same IP.
#1 www.example.com (assigned IP OK)
#2 www.example.com/index.html (A different IP)
#3 www.example2.com/index.html (same response as #2)

What am I seeing?

[bill]

Maybe they have some sort of load sharing system in place.

[jbinbpt]

I get the same inner IP on all sites I try, from my own to WebmasterWorld. Is it my machines, my router, The way it is supposed to be?

Just weird.

[JS_Harris]

Apparently the IP is assigned to the root domain, anything else confuses the cmd prompt perhaps? Never tried it.