whats the IP of my webserver?

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I'm at work and i need to know the IP address of our webserver.

How can i do this? I know the url but i would like to know the IP of that url.
 
Poolybit said:
Surely you can just ping <url> to get the IP?

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the guy told me the incorrect url basically. Thats why it didnt work. Is there a way however to search for the webserver of your network if you dont know the url and u dont know the ip? I guess you can assign the webserver with any kind of ip or url even? You'd either need to know one or the other right?
 
Lex said:
Is there a way however to search for the webserver of your network if you dont know the url and u dont know the ip? I guess you can assign the webserver with any kind of ip or url even? You'd either need to know one or the other right?
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Obviously you need to read up on all this a little. ANY machine on ANY network has an IP as well as a URL. The network administrator will know what these are.
 
Lex said:
I'm at work and i need to know the IP address of our webserver.

How can i do this? I know the url but i would like to know the IP of that url.
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ask the guy who give you the url lol.........
 
Dr_Evil said:
Obviously you need to read up on all this a little. ANY machine on ANY network has an IP as well as a URL. The network administrator will know what these are.
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dude i know that! I'm just curious to know if there is ANOTHER way to find out. ...."obviously".

lol please dont say 'ask the network administrator.' hehe
 
Lex said:
dude i know that! I'm just curious to know if there is ANOTHER way to find out. ...."obviously".

lol please dont say 'ask the network administrator.' hehe
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sorry, i didn't mean to be rude. There's just soo much to explain about all that, i didn't really know what else to put.

Basically any machine on a network has an IP address - either assigned manually by the network admin, or dynamically by the server or router they are attached to. This goes for internal networks or internet connected machines.

If you have registered a "domain name" and have the company set it up properly so that it points to the ip of your webserver, you can access it's web services by typing in the url. Otherwise, you'll have to type in it's IP.

You can get the IP in several ways. Easiest i find is to type "ipconfig" in a command prompt on your webserver.

hope this helps.
 
Lex said:
dude i know that! I'm just curious to know if there is ANOTHER way to find out. ...."obviously".

lol please dont say 'ask the network administrator.' hehe
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look at your title of this thread. you asked whats the IP of your webserver. It's clearly not your server and any attempts to find the address would be invading. If its your works address and server ask your work collegues.

EDIT: there is a tool called an ip scanner :) you may want to google it. bare in mind if the techs catch you using it you will eat you alive ;) :rolleyes:
 
Dr_Evil said:
sorry, i didn't mean to be rude. There's just soo much to explain about all that, i didn't really know what else to put.

Basically any machine on a network has an IP address - either assigned manually by the network admin, or dynamically by the server or router they are attached to. This goes for internal networks or internet connected machines.

If you have registered a "domain name" and have the company set it up properly so that it points to the ip of your webserver, you can access it's web services by typing in the url. Otherwise, you'll have to type in it's IP.

You can get the IP in several ways. Easiest i find is to type "ipconfig" in a command prompt on your webserver.

hope this helps.
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:) i didnt mean to jump at you:| :P I'm aware of it all i was just curious thats all buddy.

zen62619 errr it clearly IS my company webserver and i was asking on behalf of my database programmer. We have a number of servers but i was wondering if he gave me the correct url because when i ping'd[url address] it didnt ping. So i was curious to know if there was any other way. we've found it now he made a mistake with the url and now its pinging. Also found the IP of the webserver through ping.

Despite no one has given me the answer which i kinda expect as "NO, there is no way to find a webserver on a LAN unless you know the URL of the webserver." Or maybe you could search for all the devices on the network and hope that the NAME of the device comes up webserver or something. Maybe even the port number could be a key to locating the webserver. I dunno anyway its okay now.

sorry for the hassle everyone.
 
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ok to find out the IP of "another" machine on a LAN:

c:\> ping <machinename>

or, do this on the machine itself:

c:\>ipconfig

both will give you the IP address of the machine you're after.
 
Dr_Evil said:
it's 127.0.0.1 a.k.a. localhost ;-)
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That would be the virtual webserver of my 'local' machine. not the webserver on the network that hosts our site address. correct me if im mistaken.
 
Lex said:
That would be the virtual webserver of my 'local' machine. not the webserver on the network that hosts our site address. correct me if im mistaken.
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in fact it's a substitute/alias IP for your local webserver on your machine, providing you have IIS installed. You can assign any in your hosts file. (c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc)
 
Dr_Evil said:
ok to find out the IP of "another" machine on a LAN:

c:\> ping <machinename>

or, do this on the machine itself:

c:\>ipconfig

both will give you the IP address of the machine you're after.
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rubbish, nslookup is the tool for looking up dns names.
 
Clarkey said:
rubbish, nslookup is the tool for looking up dns names.
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Yeah for advanced users maybe. Ping and IPConfig work fine, providing you know the machine name and you have access to the webserver.
 
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