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If you do not know your web site IP number, it can be discovered as follows:
- Using Windows95 and Windows98.
- Press the Start Button > Programs > MS-DOS Prompt.
- A command line box will open.
- Type: ping yoursite.com
- Using Windows2000
- Press the Start Button > Run
- Open: cmd
- A command line box will open.
- Type: ping yoursite.com
When you enter your website name you can determine the www, mail, domain and FTP IP addresses. For example, www.yoursite.com will give you the IP address for the DNS entry called mail.yoursite.com will show you the IP address for the DNS entry called mail, www.yoursite.com will show the www IP address, etc.
The general format (and merely an example) for the ping
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Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
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command will look something like:
C:\>ping mail.cybrmall.net or;
C:\>ping ftp.cybrmall.net or;
C:\>ping www.cybrmall.net or;
C:\>ping cybrmall.net
Pinging mail.cybrmall.net [63.196.122.2] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 63.196.122.2: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
Reply from 63.196.122.2: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
Reply from 63.196.122.2: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
Reply from 63.196.122.2: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
Ping statistics for 63.196.122.2:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
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