Find the IP address of a website using command prompt

This Instructable will show you how to find the IP address of of any website you want and find where the IP address originates from.
And using this method instead of pinging the address shows you the fastest connection speed between servers/connections.

Btw, tell me how you go using it.

Step 1 Find the IP address

Open command prompt and type in "tracert" then type in the website for example "tracert www.instructables.com" without these things"".

The second picture shows what comes up.

The IP address is what comes up next to where it says "tracing route to (the website you inserted)(the IP address).

Comments

[taleste]

Hey I have a small problem.
My computer was recently stolen. I think I found it for sale in a website.
I have the URL link for the website, but I do not know how to trace it.
Can you help me to find the IP aadress for the website and maybe even the location from where the add was posted?

The link is this, it is a Latvian web-site:

URL:
http://www.ss.lv/msg/lv/electronics/computers/computers/noutbooks-and-portables/lnexm.html

[grampafish]

the department of defense is 67.69.196.163

[grampafish]

the National Security Agency is 12.249.212.9

[bgill2]

can you plz tell me IP adress for facebook

[mmahanta]

the ip address of facebook is
74.125.261.841

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[jlaw6]

just like the last person 69.63.189.11 and 69.63.189.16 and 69.63.181.12 also another thing that might work is if you try a modified version of the facebook script to access the site directly from the wdks server which is not restricted.
[e-mail] let me know if it works for you.

[nmikovic]

OK, you enter :
tracert www.website.com
and you get the IP.So to use it you need to go to :
www.ip2location.com
On the right side there is a ip location.Just enter the IP you got and sometimes you may get the post number of the corporation.

[jlaw6]

face book ips. not sure when thay expire. all are working now. 69.63.189.11 and 69.63.189.16 and 69.63.181.12

[joinaqd]

gave you 5 stars, nice instructable...um could you put some examples of what we can do with the IP address?

[thermoelectric]

You could remotely connect to someones computer...

[Everett_McKinley]

how??

[DrJekyl]

That was good. Looks like it traces through all the IP addresses which are between the target IP address and my machine. Those intermediataries are ISPs, Regional routers and HTTP servers.

[dayan0718285352]

sent email this code
plz
[e-mail]
thnks

[thermoelectric]

Yeah, it does that, It also shows the DNS servers.

[alfred_a]

You can also use one of the many DNS and IP dedicated web sites like http://www.dnsfrog.com but I think a ping is the fastest way...

[Hine89]

Another way to get the IP address of a website is to type into CMD, "nslookup (website)", and the "Address" at the bottom will be the website's IP.

[saiyadmustakim007]

hi.....
nslookup to chack dns server ip.
no host ip see.

[connman]

my schools blocked facebook, i did this but i cant log on and i need to speak to my parents who live abroad but i dont want a massive phone bill, i tried using anchor free but they've blocked that too :( im a really non computerish guy so if you have instructions theyll have to be quite simple :P cheeeers :D

[rsscarface138]

Truly gr8, but could u plz provide details how we can pass diff website blocks or create those blocks with the available info? Thanx

[thermoelectric]

Getting around blocked sites is as easy as using a proxy server, just search on Instructables for information. Blocking websites is a lot harder unless you have access to the router or the networks proxy server.

[rsscarface138]

then could u tell me how to get access to the router or the networks proxy server of a particular website?

[thermoelectric]

Try searching for it.

[jibatsu]

www.youtube.com is 209.85.227.101 i typed it into my url and it came to google

[thermoelectric]

Hmmm, Don't really know why that is happenning

[jibatsu]

fun ible either way, my dad has a website so i tried that, it came to a small animated picture, turns out it was another website he is making and that he was going to show it to me but i found it before he could tel me.

[thermoelectric]

Cool, Glad you liked it.

[Jjolleygal99]

I liked your instructable. But I was wondering, can you be more specific when typing in the website? Like instead of just, www.instructables.com, could you do like, www.instructables.com/johnna, and get the ip address to the person's home computer used in making their website?? I'm a curious soul, and it won't work. So I was wondering if you knew how to obtain that sort of information. Thanks!

[thermoelectric]

Unfortunatly no, Because this relys on finding the server. Which is the website's server, not your home computer

[Jjolleygal99]

Oh Darn. Oh well. Thanks!

[thermoelectric]

Yeah

[Poincare]

Its not much use just knowing the IP. I used this once to bring my brother's website for fun (I got the IP and pinged it with a java program that duplicates its self by creating batch files and in the end it pinged the website a bajjillion times.

[thermoelectric]

Yeah.

[Cracknel]

just ping the website with ping www.example.com

[Goodhart]

Although it is true that you get the original address with Ping, you will not get the route to the address, so with tracert you get more information.

[thermoelectric]

Looks like someone has been viewing my instructables ^{GOOD ONYA GOODHART}

[pestan]

very good!

[thermoelectric]

Thanks for the comment