Software - Manual DNS lookup? kb0hae - 14.06.2006, 15:48 Uhr Titel: Manual DNS lookup?
Hi. Here is what I am looking for. some software to perform a DNS lookup. I want to give it a URL, and get back the IP address of the web site. Why? Well I have a web site and maintain several web sites for some friends. The free hostin service that I use is pretty good, but has the annoying habit of changing the IP addresses of these web sites without giving notice that they have done so.
So sudenly, I cannot connect via FTP to upload new or changed pages.
I used to be able to do a ping, and get the IP but it seems that this is blocked by Peoplepc now...When I do a ping I get a response of unknown host nameofwebsite
I get this in both Kanotix and Win98se, both with firewall disabled and firewall running. Yet a Windows program called Fastnet 99 can get the IP addresses.
Is there a way to do this in Linux? Maybe from a terminal?
Any ideas?
PS. I really do not want to move these sites to a new web hosting service, and I have read that many free web hosting services change their IP addresses frequently.
Gowator - 14.06.2006, 16:06 Uhr Titel:
Yes you can use
whois <>
or
nslookup <>
both from CLI and both query the DNS directly however you should be able to do this directly with ftp too .. just use the domain name instead of IP.
kb0hae - 15.06.2006, 01:35 Uhr Titel:
Hi Gowator. Here are the results of trying what you said.
This is a valid URL, and the web page is loaded in Firefox just fine.
I tried several other valid web page URLs also...same results. And the firewall IS disabled.
Any other ideas?
schnorrer - 15.06.2006, 12:24 Uhr Titel:
a name.name.net ask for name.net and you got an answer.