Slimy Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 How would one go about doing this? What is neowin's ip address? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 thor777_au Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 Open a command prompt (in XP, click Start>run. Type cmd, and press enter. Type ping www.neowin.net It will respond with neowins IP address. This is just an example, it works with any website address. If you dont receive a response from a website (like you will from neowin) all's this means is neowin mods/owners block the server from giving a response. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Slimy Posted September 25, 2005 Author Share Posted September 25, 2005 thanks guys but why does the ip address change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Got3n Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 Click Start -> Run -> "cmd" -> Enter -> ping www.youraddresshere.com Pinging www.youraddresshere.com [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=52 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=52 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=52 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=52 Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 11ms, Maximum = 12ms, Average = 11ms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 HellBender Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 Note that Neowin runs on multiple servers. This means that when you ping neowin.net, it automatically picks the best server to send you to. It's called load balancing and is used by most large websites spanned across multiple servers. So, to get ALL the IP addresses that a website has, you want to do a DNS lookup. Namely, you want to lookup the A records of a domain name. Best way to do it? Just google for dns lookup and use the resulting website to do a dns lookup on neowin. Example: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/lookup.ch?na...owin.net&type=A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 SoapyHamHocks Member Posted September 25, 2005 Member Share Posted September 25, 2005 Also try cmd > nslookup neowin.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Slimy Posted September 25, 2005 Author Share Posted September 25, 2005 thanks for the lin hellbender, but i can't figure out what i'm doing wrong with the hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost 70.84.250.53 neowin.net 69.93.228.21 neowin.net 67.19.42.45 neowin.net 67.19.42.46 neowin.net ns2.neowin.net. neowin.net ns1.neowin.net. neowin.net i can still access the site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 HellBender Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 You have multiple IP addresses for the same domain (not to mention you also have the neowin nameservers in there). Try picking one and just using that. Why are you trying to use the hosts file to access neowin, by the way? The increase in speed isn't very significant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Slimy Posted September 25, 2005 Author Share Posted September 25, 2005 doesn't the host file enable you to block the ability to access websites too? you know what, forget this thread, i feel stupid now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Got3n Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 doesn't the host file enable you to block the ability to access websites too? you know what, forget this thread, i feel stupid now. 586575919[/snapback] I was just about to call you that, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 danmed Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 if you want to block access to this site.. then put a line in your hosts file like this 127.0.0.1 www.neowin.net or alternatively.. just block the url with a firewall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Slimy Posted September 26, 2005 Author Share Posted September 26, 2005 ^ bahaha. i was right. thx danmed! @ got3n, guess i'm not stupid after all ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 danmed Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 It will block addresses and it can help with DNS problems too.. thats how some spyware etc works by adding a long list of antivirus website addresses to your hosts file and pointing them all back at your own pc, that way no updates or similar can be retreived.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 adamlivesley Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 Where is the Host file in Windows XP ? Im sure it used to be in the C --> Windows --> System32 ? But I cant seem to find it!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 joker999 Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc edit 'hosts' with notepad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 FiB3R Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Sep 2005 :rolleyes: I think we have a sneaky spammer on our hands. stoo2000 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 b10h4z4rd Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 No bumping ancient threads. Thread Closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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