k- dumb question- how do i find out the numerical address for a website? such as, how would i find out the numerical site addy for www.hotmail.com?
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k- dumb question- how do i find out the numerical address for a website? such as, how would i find out the numerical site addy for www.hotmail.com?
Numerical like in IP - address ?
If so enter the site the following site http://www.samspade.org and do a lookup...
If you have nix or winnt, you can use the nslookup command at a console.
Awwww.... Chaps...... Make it easy on the guy......
ping www.hotmail.com returns the target's IP
tracert XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX returns the FQDN, (Fully Qualified Domain Name), of the target IP.....
GIRL, actually.... :)Quote:
Originally posted here by Tiger Shark
Awwww.... Chaps...... Make it easy on the guy......
ping www.hotmail.com returns the target's IP
tracert XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX returns the FQDN, (Fully Qualified Domain Name), of the target IP.....
Couldn't you also just open up Command and use the ping function... doesn't it resolve the hostname down to the IP address?
not always, from my experiance if a site doesnt turn anything up in a whois and nslookup doesnt turn anything up, then ping usually doesnt either. So if its one of those cases youd have to let us know.
Johhny, (or should that be Johnette....<s>): Sorry..... :o
Plastic: Er..... Isn't that what I just said????? :confused:
Hatebreed: You are correct. Ping/tracert do not always resolve the FQDN/IP. But then if either of these don't you usually don't get any usable information out of any other tools other than the owner of the netblock which can span several A classes.
dang shrekkie sam spade is and old prog i thought peeps forgot about it. lol good program
Well old or not... It seems to keep doing the trick , ;)
Easy and quick,
well JOHNNY all this guys did the job if problem further persists then let us know.
Cheers
Hey Johnny the girl,
u have an excellent tool under ur eyes... yes...
AO provides a tool called IP locator. http://www.antionline.com/tools-and-toys/ip-locate/
It gives address and World wild location.
No doubt, AO is a good site ;)
If u want to understand the theory google "DNS"
Target IP.. Sam Spade is one option, also try blackcode.com for IP. traceroute, ping open port, DNS records, and whosis all in one shot....
It depends on the server hosting the domain name. If ICMP is being blocked by a firewall then ping will not do anything. If it's not a ping will echo back the IP address of the domain name. Otherwise you can go to www.nsi.com and do a WHOIS.
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Originally posted here by johnnybluecrush
k- dumb question- how do i find out the numerical address for a website? such as, how would i find out the numerical site addy for www.hotmail.com?
Issue a dns lookup on the host..
Linux:
host <host/ip>
Windows (many ways): an easy way to figure out the ip, is to ping it..
Yes, finding the IP and pinging the host have little to do with eachother, but..
C:\>ping www.yahoo.com
Pinging www.yahoo.akadns.net [216.109.125.66] with 32 bytes of data:
I'm not aware of a host command on windows.
yes johnny, these guys are correct...
further tips on gaining IP adresses: if you are trying to get the IP of an ISP, or a semi large company... find an email adress for the company... (ie. [email protected]) and then run a mailbounce on that email (ie. [email protected]) then look in the header when the email bounces back to you, and u should have their SMTP adress. I know that there are better ways of getting that such as "ping mail.microsoft.com" but this might help you better understand some of the concepts.
just a thought ;)