Accounts no longer on server still respond to ping?

Maning

• May 29, 2019 06:04

I have done a reverse IP Lookup on my server's IP. I found about 10 domains that pointing to my server's IP (probably not working domains that were hosted on previous owner of the server) The strange thing is that when I am pinging some of them server replies. I thought that when the domain is not listed on the account list, ping request shouldn't find the host, is that right?

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  GOT

  • May 29, 2019 11:33

  Ping specifically is an icmp request and if you are pinging a domain all it does is send a request to that ip and unless you've disabled pings in the firewall your server will respond. It has nothing to do with Apache and what domains are configured there.

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  cPanelMichael

  • May 31, 2019 19:32

  Hello @Maning, I concur with @GOT. Let us know if you have any additional questions. Thank you.

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