How do you translate URL adresses into IP addresses?

Answer 1

if you have windows you:

Start -> Run -> type "CMD" -> click ok

you'll get a prompt that says c:\(directory)

type the following: ping www.yahoo.com

it will respond back with the IP address. to verify its correct, you can take that IP address and type it back in a browser and it will open the website. Unless the site is running on host headers.

theres several other ways of doing it too.. nslookup, tracert and such. You can also do it from some websites. Search google for "DNS tool"

Answer 2

URLs are translated into IP addresses by DNS servers. Most routers have DNS replication built into them, but routers themselves don't use URLs, so they're not translated into IP addresses FOR the routers. The routers don't care about the URL. URLs are translated into IP addresses for the benefit of browsers like IE or Firefox.

Answer 3

You can translate the domain name of a URL into an IP address by doing a DNS Lookup. I usually go to http://www.dnsstuff.com/ which offers this tool.

A DNS Lookup tool may also be available on your computer. Go to Start > Run > Type "NSLOOKUP" without quotes > Key in the domain name.

For example, you have a Wikipedia URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_system . You can do a DNS lookup on en.wikipedia.org to find out the IP address of the server hosting Wikipedia.

Answer 4

The easiest way to do it is to go to this site:

http://samspade.org/

Paste the address into the box and click Whois. It will list the IP address at the top of the next page.

Answer 5

This is done through DNS servers. Alternatively if you want to see it in Windows:

go to command line start > run > cmd

and type in ping website

for example
C:\>ping www.ucla.edu

Pinging www.ucla.edu [169.232.33.135] with 32 bytes of data:

That IP address you see if the site IP

Answer 6

can you actually do that ?