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James

2004-02-29, 10:29 am

How does one find the numerical server address for a web page?

Thanks for any help.

James


Tom Pepper Willett

2004-02-29, 11:28 am

Do a reverse dns look-up.
One place to do it is www.dnsstuff.com

Input the domain name and you'll get the IP.
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| How does one find the numerical server address for a web page?
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| Thanks for any help.
|
| James
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Jon

2004-02-29, 11:28 am

Hi James

fire up a command prompt and type nslookup www.site.com

Jon
Microsoft MVP - FP

James wrote:
> How does one find the numerical server address for a web page?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> James



Rob Schneider

2004-02-29, 11:28 am

If you are looking for the server's IP addresss when you say "numerical
server address", then an easy way to do this is to run the "ping"
command in a command prompt box.

For example, doing this to get Yahoo's web server address shows it's at
216.109.117.108:

=====================
C:\WINDOWS>ping www.yahoo.com

Pinging www.yahoo.akadns.net [216.109.117.108] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.109.117.108: bytes=32 time=129ms TTL=56
Reply from 216.109.117.108: bytes=32 time=147ms TTL=56

Ping statistics for 216.109.117.108:
Packets: Sent = 2, Received = 2, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 129ms, Maximum = 147ms, Average = 138ms
======================


Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms




James wrote:
> How does one find the numerical server address for a web page?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> James
>
>

Steve Easton

2004-02-29, 11:28 am

Open a DOS or CMD window ( depending upon windows version ) and type:
ping www.website.com and press enter.
It will return the numerical IP address of the website.
Be advised that many websites run on servers that use shared IP's / virtual
hosting.
Therefore it's possible that you could ping www.thissite.com and
www.thatsite.com and have them both return the same IP address.
If so and they returned IP 123.456.789.123 and you then entered
http://123.456.789.123 in your browser address bar you will most likely get
a server default page and not a web site.

Example: www.95isalive runs on a shared IP / virtual server. The IP
address is http://216.74.96.157
Click the IP address and see what happens.

hth

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"James" <schoenberger@erols.com> wrote in message
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> How does one find the numerical server address for a web page?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> James
>
>



Tom Pepper Willett

2004-02-29, 11:28 am

...also, many may have the ping blocked with their firewall.
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"Steve Easton" <admin@95isalive.com> wrote in message
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| Open a DOS or CMD window ( depending upon windows version ) and type:
| ping www.website.com and press enter.
| It will return the numerical IP address of the website.
| Be advised that many websites run on servers that use shared IP's /
virtual
| hosting.
| Therefore it's possible that you could ping www.thissite.com and
| www.thatsite.com and have them both return the same IP address.
| If so and they returned IP 123.456.789.123 and you then entered
| http://123.456.789.123 in your browser address bar you will most likely
get
| a server default page and not a web site.
|
| Example: www.95isalive runs on a shared IP / virtual server. The IP
| address is http://216.74.96.157
| Click the IP address and see what happens.
|
| hth
|
| --
| Steve Easton
| Microsoft MVP FrontPage
| 95isalive
| This site is best viewed............
| .......................with a computer
|
| "James" <schoenberger@erols.com> wrote in message
| news:%23Tl4a$s$DHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
| > How does one find the numerical server address for a web page?
| >
| > Thanks for any help.
| >
| > James
| >
| >
|
|


Tom Pepper Willett

2004-02-29, 11:28 am

...well, however, it'll still show the IP address. DUH to me.
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Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/un...ding/frontpage/
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"Tom Pepper Willett" <tompepper@mvps.org> wrote in message
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| ..also, many may have the ping blocked with their firewall.
| --
| -----
| Tom Pepper Willett
| Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| http://www.microsoft.com/office/fro...fo/default.mspx
| http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/un...ding/frontpage/
| ----
| "Steve Easton" <admin@95isalive.com> wrote in message
| news:Oyj1MMt$DHA.712@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
| | Open a DOS or CMD window ( depending upon windows version ) and type:
| | ping www.website.com and press enter.
| | It will return the numerical IP address of the website.
| | Be advised that many websites run on servers that use shared IP's /
| virtual
| | hosting.
| | Therefore it's possible that you could ping www.thissite.com and
| | www.thatsite.com and have them both return the same IP address.
| | If so and they returned IP 123.456.789.123 and you then entered
| | http://123.456.789.123 in your browser address bar you will most likely
| get
| | a server default page and not a web site.
| |
| | Example: www.95isalive runs on a shared IP / virtual server. The IP
| | address is http://216.74.96.157
| | Click the IP address and see what happens.
| |
| | hth
| |
| | --
| | Steve Easton
| | Microsoft MVP FrontPage
| | 95isalive
| | This site is best viewed............
| | .......................with a computer
| |
| | "James" <schoenberger@erols.com> wrote in message
| | news:%23Tl4a$s$DHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
| | > How does one find the numerical server address for a web page?
| | >
| | > Thanks for any help.
| | >
| | > James
| | >
| | >
| |
| |
|
|


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