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siliconbits
July 17th, 2001, 08:38
I know it aint really the forum, but I really need to know, plsssss
LastActionHero
July 17th, 2001, 09:14
Can you please elaborate what you want?

Do you want the IP address of a domain name from a domain name?
siliconbits
July 17th, 2001, 14:41
http://www.yahoo.com > 253.253.253.253 [I know it is now true, but I use only as an example.

What's the formula for that?

:confused:
Robert
July 17th, 2001, 14:56
There isn't a formula, your paid webhosting company will give you your own static IP. For example, my site is dim8.net and my IP is 216.234.172.228. I own all IPs from 216.234.172.224 to 216.24.172.254. When a client wants a static IP, I give them one of mine. =)
siliconbits
July 18th, 2001, 08:19
Hmmm might that be the difference between virtual hosting and dedicated?
niv
July 18th, 2001, 08:45
nope. you can still have your own IP even if you are being hosted virtually...i think (robert, am i correct? :confused: )
LastActionHero
July 18th, 2001, 09:17
Originally posted by needcgispace
nope. you can still have your own IP even if you are being hosted virtually...i think (robert, am i correct? :confused: )

Usually in virtual hosting many domains share the same IP. But a domain can also have it's own IP.

In dedicated you always have your own IP. You can also have more than one IP to host different hosts on the same dedicated server.
niv
July 18th, 2001, 09:24
okay.

oh yeah, if you want to find the IP of a certain domain, just use nslookup in linux :p
LastActionHero
July 18th, 2001, 09:41
Originally posted by needcgispace
okay.

oh yeah, if you want to find the IP of a certain domain, just use nslookup in linux :p


or type ping domain name on a windows box on the command prompt ;)
niv
July 18th, 2001, 09:43
Originally posted by lastactionhero



or type ping domain name on a windows box on the command prompt ;)

or ping domain.name in linux for that matter :p
Lynks
July 18th, 2001, 10:56
Talking about this, how do I get dos boxes from automatically closing?
niv
July 18th, 2001, 11:00
Originally posted by Lynks
Talking about this, how do I get dos boxes from automatically closing?

well, when you're running a program in dos, once it ends, windows automatically closes, thus run this instead:

C:\WINDOWS\DOSPRMPT.PIF

that'll open an MS-DOS prompt. run programs via this.