TheBigMan

What is the DOS command you can use to determine the "alias" address for any website??

Thanks.

King RA

There isn't one (as far as I'm aware). It's a unix command (as far as I'm aware!!)

ozzy

"nslookup"

just type in a www domain name e.g. www.microsoft.com

type exit to quit the utility.

King RA

There you go, thought there would be an equivilent.

Dracoro

if you ping the address, it'll give you the ip back, e.g. bbs.scoobynet.co.uk is 217.79.127.30.

King RA

and if you ping -a i.p then it resolves the hostname for you.

jpor

iTrader: (1)

Wouldn't tracert or pathping show this?

David_Wallis

No.

Ping isnt for resolving hostnames, it may do it but its not the correct way of doing it..

If a site is using round robin, or has a cname record then ping will not show this, nslookup (on windows ) will.

Tracert is for tracing the route the packet takes - Cant imagine why the name is like that.

Pathping does the same but shows how many packets were dropped at each hop, usefull when you have intermittent problems.

David

dowser

From an interactive nslookup session, type:

'ls -t CNAME domain.name.com'

This will dump all alias' for that domain.

But a lot of DNS sysadmins will have disallowed this feature now....expect "Query Refused"

unfeasablylargegonads

iTrader: (3)

www.completewhois.com is a usefull site as well

DrEvil

http://www.samspade.org/