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  1. Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!rock!stanford.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!aperrin1@cc.swarthmore.edu
  3. From: aperrin1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Andy Perrin)
  4. Subject: Re: How do I find an IP address number?
  5. Message-ID: <9YFXBCKM@cc.swarthmore.edu>
  6. Sender: news@cc.swarthmore.edu (USENET News System)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: techsters.swarthmore.edu
  8. Organization: Swarthmore College
  9. References: <golub-260193145223@aragorn13.acns.nwu.edu> <dockhorn.728172771@probitas>
  10. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:47:29 GMT
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  12.  
  13. In article <dockhorn.728172771@probitas>, dockhorn@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au
  14. (Patrick Dockhorn) writes:
  15.  
  16. > Many UNIX machines provide a tool called 'nslookup' which gets the required
  17. > information from the Domain Name System which you can imagine as a distributed
  18. > database of IP addresses.
  19.  
  20. Alternatively, some systems don't provide NSLookup because it eats
  21. resources and (some think) constitutes a security risk.  Sometimes such
  22. sites provide the more limited host command:
  23.  
  24. 8:46am,hemlock,[~]% host camis.stanford.edu
  25. camis.stanford.edu has address 36.44.0.7
  26.  
  27. Andy Perrin - Swarthmore College
  28. 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA, 19081-1397 USA
  29. aperrin1@cc.swarthmore.edu - aperrin@igc.apc.org
  30.