[Techtalk] Resolving a doman name

Carla Schroder carla at bratgrrl.com
Wed Jan 19 14:01:03 EST 2005


On Tuesday 18 January 2005 6:51 pm, Sue Stones wrote:
> How can I determine the machine address of a domain name.  I want to see 
> if a domain name is pointed at the right machine.
> 

Me! Me! I know this one- use the host command:

$ host bratgrrl.com
bratgrrl.com has address 69.56.234.130

ping is good too:

$ ping bratgrrl.com
PING bratgrrl.com (69.56.234.130): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 69.56.234.130: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=153.9 ms
...

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