There are times in which we might need to know the IP address of our personal computer, a situation that is not difficult to do using small tricks within the system configuration. But Can you find out the IP address of any web page?
Computer specialists could answer this question in a very simple and easy way, who mention that this only requires ping to said web page. If we are moderately knowledgeable about computer terms, then we could try to interpret this suggestion as the possibility of open a Command Terminal on any operating system and then write this order pointing to a specific web page, a situation that is generally carried out as advice by Internet providers to know if a computer is browsing to a specific environment.
Can I browse with the IP address of a web page?
Well, what we have mentioned above will serve as a basis for us to be able to execute what we are going to explain in this article; To do this, we suggest following the following steps in Windows:
- We go to the «Home Menu Button».
- In the search area we write «cmd«.
- From the results shown above, andwe read "cmd" clicking with the right button of our mouse and we run it as Administrator.
- A command terminal will open.
- There we have to write the following:
ping google.com
The example that we have proposed refers to trying know the IP address of Google.com as a web page, having obtained a few results with a single identification; If we copy this IP address as shown in the results in the URL address space of our Internet browser, we can see that the result refers to the Google.com search engine; In other words, we could reach this Internet environment by placing the domain name with the IP address as long as we know this information.
Does the method work for any web page?
Unfortunately NO, something that we could conclude if we follow the same procedure that we indicated above, but pointing to a conventional website. For example, if we are going to follow the same method with the Killer Vinegar page, what we will get will be the following.
There you can also see a few IP addresses that belong to the killer vinegar blog. If we copy any of them and place it in the URL space of our Internet browser, we will notice that The result throws us to a screen with an error; This occurs since the IP address is the identification of a server that contains many web pages, so it would be practically impossible to define in which server space a specific web page is located, and in our case, that of Vinagre. Killer.
But there is a small trick that we could adopt, something that is based on the Host file that is part of the Windows libraries. To do this, we just have to locate it and then add an additional line that refers to both the IP address and the web page we want to investigate.
178.255.213.143 vinegarasesino.com
The instruction that we have placed previously should be copied entirely into this Host file that we have found, saving it and then repeating the process that refers to pinging our web page.
Once we have carried out this procedure, the result will be very different from what was presented before, although since it is a private domain, an ordinary visitor You will not be able to see any information through this environment and in the Internet browser.
It is worth mentioning that you can find the Host file in both Linux and Windows at 2 different addresses, something we show you in the image below.
In Windows you can open this file Hosts with a simple Notepad but with administrator permissions, since otherwise the file will not save the changes made there.