How to find any website's IP address?

February 07, 2025 | 10:20 AM

A light, practical note on using the ping command to discover a website’s IP address. It touches on what ping actually does at the network level and shows how a simple diagnostic tool can double as a quick way to reason about host availability and connectivity.

It's not such a big deal, but I ping websites for absolutely no reason!

Ping command is used to send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts. It is used to check the transmission of packets to host over the network, which signifies the status of the host.

But I use it to find IP address of websites/hosts for fun! Sometimes just to check if discord server is down!