[thelist] determining IP address of websites

Richard Harb rharb at earthling.net
Wed May 4 14:41:51 CDT 2005


On Wednesday 04 May 2005 21:00, Christian Heilmann wrote:
> > I can't remember how to do this...determine the IP numbers for a
> > website domain name.
> >
> > can someone refresh my memory?
>
> ping?`

nslookup or dig (on *nix systems) will do the job.

ping and traceroute might also display the address but these tools do a 
different job and their output might cause some confusion to the uninitiated 
if the webserver does not reply to ICMP packets ...

>
> just go to DOS and enter ping www.example.com
> tracert is another command, which shows how you get there.
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