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in on your DNS server (usually located with your ISP). If that
name is not an entry in your ISP’s DNS table, the request is
then referred to another higher-level server, and so on, until the
entry is found. The server then returns the associated IP
address.

On Windows-based computers, you can execute the nslookup
command from the Start menu. Click the Start button, and then
click Run. In the Open text box, type the following:

Nslookup

Click OK. A Command Prompt window displays with a bracket
prompt (>). At the prompt, type the name of the Internet address
that you are interested in, such as www.microsoft.com.

The window will display the associate IP address, if known, as
shown below:

Figure 12:

Using the nslookup Utility

There may be several addresses associated with an Internet
name. This is common for web sites that receive heavy traffic;
they use multiple, redundant servers to carry the same
information.

To exit from the nslookup utility, type exit and press [Enter] at
the command prompt.

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