How To Determine The IP Address Of Any Website

Each Website on the internet is associated with at least one (Internet Protocol) IP Address. When you are trying to open the website on your computer you just only type the name of the website in your browser and it will open the website for you but your web browser never shows the IP Address which is connected with the domain .

How To Determine The IP Address Of Any Website ?

Step 1
Go to Start button and in the search box type cmd  and hit Enter .

Step 2 
It will show you the black box on your computer .

Step 3 
There are three ways or commands which we can use in command prompt to determine the IP Addresses associated with the website 

• Ping 
• Nslookup
• Tracert 

Ping

Ping is a standard tool used to check whether a host is alive or reachable through the network or not. Ping command sends request messages to other network address and checks the time it takes for a response message to arrive . 

Command : ping example.com 

Type the address of the website in place of example.com and command prompt will show you the IP Address associated with your websites .

 For eg : Google.com is associated with 74.125.236.0

Nslookup

(Name Server Lookup)Nslookup command query the DNS(Domain Name Service) for information about Domain Name and IP Addressess.When you start Nslookup , it shows the hostname and IP address of the DNS server that is configured for the local system and then display the further queries.

Command : nslookup example.com

Type the address of the website in place of example.com and command prompt will show you the hostname and IP address of the DNS server and also list the IP Addresses associated with your websites. For eg : Nslookup of Google.com first display the Hostname and IP address of the DNS sever and then display the list of IP Addresses associated with domain google.com.

Tracert

Tracert is used to show the details about the path that a packet takes from the computer to other destination.Tracert display the list of near-side router and the path between host and destination.

Command : tracert example.com

Type the address of the website in place of example.com and command prompt will show you the IP address of the website and the path took by host to get to the destination.

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