IP addresses !!!!!!!!!

[NEO]

Hi, how do i find an IP Address ?

Ive pinged this address http://www15.Brinkster.com
& it gives me: http://66.70.10.41/

Put that IP address is not the same as the above URL ???

Can anyone explain this to me ? Why is it giving me a different address ??

Thanks.

[Whitesword]

I think there's a mistake with the above address :)
http://www15.brinkster.com is not a valid address.

brinkster.com is 66.70.10.242 while 66.70.10.41 belongs to a binkster member who has not yet developed a site.

Looks like brinkster.com has the network addresses in the range of: 66.70.10.*

HTH
Whitesword

[NEO]

no, my brinkster web address is www15.brinkster.com/network16

So how can i find the ip address for that ?? In stead of writing the full address.

Any help would be great!

Thanks,

[Whitesword]

Ahhh, I see the problem now... actually the address of your site is 66.70.10.41 as you mentioned earlier. Unfortunately you are being bitten by a piece of IP Masquerading. It a technique sometimes by Unix type systems and also Win2K, in order to host multiple websites off one IP address.

To get direct access to your site, you will need to contact the network administrator and query him/her about it.

I'll speak about Win2K as I know about that, but the IIS server on 2K (and only 2K, XP doesn't support it) can host multiple websites off one IP address by processing the http header and then depending on the domain address redirecting the ISS engine to the correct folder on the server. I'll be doing that myself very shortly (like in the next week or so).

It's one of the many methods around the shortage of network addresses on the internet and why they are still working on IPV6 (it is supposed to use 48-64 bit TCP/IP addressing, rather than the 32 bit we're using at the moment.)

HTH

Whitesword

[NEO]

Ok, thanks for you help anyway!:)

Ill have to contact brinkster, and ask them about it!

Jon,