In Windows, you can do many things using the command line. Converting a domain name to its IP address with the nslookup command is one of them. You can also find the IP address of any website’s server.
Here is the step-by-step process:
1. Click the Start button and type cmd in the search box. Press the Enter key”.
2. The Windows command prompt will open. Now type nslookup ftp.yahoo.com and press enter.
3. It will show you the Yahoo FTP IP address. This is the IP address of the yahoo.com host. Similarly, you can find a host for any other website.
4. If you want to look up the IP address of a website, type nslookup at the command prompt and press enter.
5. Now type the domain name of any website and press enter. It will show you the IP address of that particular website. For example, I type google.com and press enter. It returns Google’s IP address: 209.85.231.104.
That means if I type http://209.85.231.104 in the address bar of my browser, google.com opens.
Similarly, you can convert any other domain name to its IP address. You can also check the results by entering the IP address in your browser’s address bar.
Now, for the more tech-savvy among you, the nslookup command is used to check the DNS servers. The above tutorial just outlines the basic usage of this command. There’s so much more you can do with it. We will bring it up in detail in a future post.
Remember, for websites that don’t have a dedicated IP address, you may get different results each time you use this command.
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