subject: How To Finding Ip Addresses [print this page] You'll discern that we gave you a so many domain names of hosts that have ftp able software, and the mailing lists we mentioned contain domain names. This should emphasize the importance of DNS: see what important software and advice you can get with the support of DNS? Unfortunately, it's also something of a chicken-and-egg problem: you not able to send email to an address with a domain name in it if not you've got DNS set up, so how can you ask somebody on the list how to set up DNS server services?
Well, we could provide you the IP addresses for all the hosts we mentioned, but since IP addresses change often (in publishing timescales, anyway), we'll show you how you can for the short term use somebody else's name server to find the information instead. As long as your host has Internet connectivity and the nslookup program, you can retrieve information from the Internet namespace.
For Example the IP address for ftp.microsoft.com, for example, you could use:
C:> nslookup ftp.microsoft.com. 207.69.188.185
This instructs nslookup to question the name server running on the host at the IP address 207.69.188.185 to find the IP address for ftp.microsoft.com and should generate output such as:
Server: ns1.mindspring.com
Address: 207.69.188.185
Name: ftp.microsoft.com
Address: 207.46.133.140
Now you can ftp to ftp.microsoft.com's IP address, 207.46.133.140.
IP address 207.69.188.185 runs a name server How did you know it? Our ISP, MindSpring, told usit's one of their name servers. If your ISP provides name servers for its clients use (and most do), use one of them. As long as you only use it to look up a few IP addresses or other data, the administrators possibly won't mind. It's considered very impolite, however, to point your resolver or query tool at someone else's name server permanently.
Of course, if you already have access to a host with Internet connectivity and have DNS server installation, you can use it to ftp what you need.
If you have start working with version of Microsoft DNS Server, you have ready to get idea about your domain name.
