finding a sites IP address

[borat]

how do you go about finding out the IP address of a site which you are visiting?i hope the more senior members of the forum do not object to me starting 2 threads one after the other in this forum

[cbman]

I am guessing that you can in dos prompt use the "tracert" command with the webpage address

for example

tracert www.murc.ws

nets me 17 hops with a final IP address of 66.96.247.157



You could give that a try.

[Taz]

Or just do a PING sitename from a DOS prompt

[HomeBrewer]

Another option is to use the "nslookup" command at a DOS/CMD prompt.

eg "c:\nslookup forums.murc.ws"

Displays:

Server: ns1.attbi.com ** this is your DNS server**
Address: 204.***.***.*** ** this is your IP address**

Name: forums.murc.ws ** the host you requested**
Address: 66.96.247.157 ** the host IP address**

There are additional switches you can set to find the targets parent domain, designated mail handler, etc, -- lots of neat goodies.

Hope this helps

HomeBrewer

[Jammrock]

Using a regular PING command in DOS/Command Prompt:

PING www.murc.ws

If you are behind a firewall or the PING command doesn't work, go to:

https://www.PingMePlease.com

Go to one of the ping links and enter in the URL of the site.

Jammrock

[Greebe]

and there's http://www.samspade.org which covers just about all the bases