Conversion of domain name to IP address

[Lixas]

I where browsing whole forum for a while and i found that maybe i should help for those members who have domain name (example: www.google.com) and what to get that server's IP address (209.85.135.103)

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

Then in Run window write: cmd
now you get command prompt. in command prompt you need to write:

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ping www.google.com

and execute this command by <enter> key
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

[SHAdmin]

Your account has been credited 15 points for explaining these basics about a domain name