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Comment from yilmaz on 2007-08-11

2007-08-11T19:03:29Z

There are good sources about it on the following link
http://www.whatusearch.net/internet/

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Comment from Chris on 2007-07-31

2007-07-31T10:02:37Z

thanks ken :)

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Comment from David on 2007-07-28

2007-07-28T19:01:45Z

As much as I've used ping for network diagnostics, it never occurred to me to use it for simply resolving a domain name. Thanks for the tip.

My tool of choice--habit, really--for resolving domain names is nslookup. It exists specifically to query DNS (Domain Name System) servers.

All of my systems come with nslookup already installed. (I run Windows XP Pro, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD; just got rid of my last Irix system, which had it, too.)

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Comment from sader on 2007-07-18

2007-07-18T21:07:57Z

nice work

http://www.click2finding.com/click2.aspx?pr=Computers/Internet/Proxying_and_Filtering/

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Comment from Ken on 2007-07-16

2007-07-16T15:51:40Z

The reason using the raw IP address in the URL doesn't always work is that there may be more than one website hosted on a given IP. (This is called "virtual hosting".) The webserver software uses the domain name within the URL to determine which site to retrieve.

For example, although "ask-leo.com" resolves to "72.3.133.152", so does "www.pugetsoundsoftware.com". If you use the raw IP on the URL, the webserver has no way of knowing which site you want, and will use some default programmed into it.

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Comment from MeroGuff on 2007-07-16

2007-07-16T12:34:01Z

But it doesn't tell how many nodes it crosses. This is vital to check the network problems. Just pinging and getting IP is no way a productive. NeoTrace, a software is ideal tool to do this. If it's ping, they must know about tracert too. by the way, you can give them a tip like " ping -t " which will ping the ISP continously and keep the connective alive. It's useful when connection is slowing down or when server is irresponsive.
If ISP's DNS server is lousy, OpenDns.com is very good place to visit all the cached internet.

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Comment from Gunnar Siréus on 2007-07-16

2007-07-16T08:09:54Z

Hi. Is it so that many proxy routers and fire walls filer away ping signals? My computer is inside a company LAN and I can't get a ping answer from anything outside the LAN.
Thanks in advance, Gunnar

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Comment from Chris on 2007-07-15

2007-07-16T05:42:44Z

If ask-leo.com = 72.3.133.152, how come when I try http://72.3.133.152:80/who_is_leo.html, it doesn't work?

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