At 03:53 PM 4/13/00 -0500, Martin J. Lang wrote:
>How did you translate (I guess "resolve" is the technical term) the
name
>service to an IP address? And can/should I do the same for yahoo's
smtp
>server? And how do you find out when they change?
Others have recommended several tools to look up an IP address from
the hostname. I have a whole bagful of tools, too, but for quick
lookup, you can't beat the ping command. Assume you are on a Windows
machine, open a DOS shell (what Microsoft calls MS-DOS Prompt) and
type:
ping <hostname>
Look for the reply response, such as:
Reply from 192.168.0.36: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
there's your IP address.
Quick and easy!
Duc
