How to reach the goal? this can be done very simply. This small how-to will be for windows users, because i'm not good a linux. maybe in linux is something like that... anyway
open run window:
- you can do it by pressing keyboard shortcut "WinKey + R" Winkey is a key with a windows logo
- Or by **** start -> Run
now you get command prompt. in command prompt you need to write:
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ping www.google.com
after that you will receive something like this:
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C:\**** and Settings\Lixas>ping www.google.com
Pinging www.l.google.com [209.85.135.103] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 209.85.135.103: bytes=32 time=261ms TTL=246
Reply from 209.85.135.103: bytes=32 time=131ms TTL=246
Reply from 209.85.135.103: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=246
Reply from 209.85.135.103: bytes=32 time=106ms TTL=246
Ping statistics for 209.85.135.103:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 106ms, Maximum = 261ms, Average = 167ms
Here you can see the ip address of the server that you need. In the same way you can ping [receive IP address] whatever domain name on the net.
simple trick and some day it can be useful