Determining IP Address

[Chaplain Doug]

How do I determine the IP address on the Windows 2000
Server at another location. For that matter, how do I
determine my IP address, and is my IP address dynamically
allocated (different each time) when I connect to the
Internet? Thanks.

 

[allan grossman [mvp]]

Hi, Doug -

If the server is connected to the Internet (and if they
allow that server to be pinged) all you have to do is
open a command prompt window and type 'ping servername'
where 'servername' is the fully qualified domain name of
the server - which will end in .com, .net and so on.

To determine your own IP address, from the same command
prompt window, just type 'ipconfig' or 'ipconfig /all'
and hit the enter key.

Your ISP determines whether your IP address is static or
dynamic - it might be best to ask them that question.

Hope this helps -

 

[Allan]

To determine your ip in Win2k go to a command prompt
window and type in ipconfig it will bring up a list that
contains your ip address.

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

you may want to setup DDNS or you can go to http://www.chicagotech.net, that
will list your public IP address.

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[Guest]

To find an IP address of any server, you could ping by DNS
name, or do a Name Server query.

For example:
ping www.yahoo.com
- or -
nslookup www.yahoo.com

If the server is on your local network, you simplify the
DNS name. For example, if you're on the same network as
yahoo.com, you could "ping www" and effectively find
www.yahoo.com.

To find your own IP address, just issue the ipconfig
command. If you want extended information, use
ipconfig /all.

Hope that helps.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

For that matter, how do I
determine my IP address, and is my IP address dynamically
allocated (different each time) when I connect to the
Internet? Thanks.

Chaplain,

you already got very good advice. Let me just add a
clarification.

The IP address is not a property of the computer. Instead it is
a property of each Ethernet port.

For example, if your computer is connected to a LAN (Local Area
Network) and also, on another port, to the Internet, then you're
already dealing with two different IP addresses.

You may get the Internet port IP address dynamically, while the
LAN IP address may be fixed or also dynamically obtained from a
DHCP server.

Another example is a router, which always has to have at least
two IP addresses, one on the far side, one on the near side.

Hans-Georg

 

[Frank]

-----Original Message-----
To find an IP address of any server, you could ping by DNS
name, or do a Name Server query.

For example:
ping www.yahoo.com
- or -
nslookup www.yahoo.com

This is assuming that the server in question is not front-
ended by a proxy server (e.g., ISA) doing NAT. If that is
the case, you will only get the IP of the proxy, not the
actual server. Also, systems can be set to ignore ICMP
traffic and not respond so PING or TRACERT may not get any
reply at all.