NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/alt/internet/services/2699

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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Dockhorn)
Subject: Re: How do I find an IP address number?
Message-ID: <dockhorn.728172771@probitas>
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Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:12:51 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Robert Golub) writes:

>I'm looking for the numerical address for an IP host (camis.stanford.edu to
>be exact). Is there a directory of IP addresses anywhere?

Many UNIX machines provide a tool called 'nslookup' which gets the required
information from the Domain Name System which you can imagine as a distributed
database of IP addresses. If you request the IP address for camis.stanford.edu
and your local server doesn't know about it, it will contact the root server
for the edu-domain asking it for help. This server then passes the request
to the name server for Stanford University, which then should be able to
send back the required information. But to answer your question :-) :
- the address is 36.44.0.7
- to solve the problem in general, use either nslookup or (quoting the FAQ):
 -IP Address Resolver   mail [e-mail]
                        mail [e-mail]  (body of letter: help)
   usage: in body-of-letter: site <address here>  Mails you IP address of site.

-patsch

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