In most cases, an Internet user does not need to know the network address of a particular computer. But sometimes a situation arises when you need to get more detailed information about a network resource or a specific computer.
Instructions
Step 1
The user most often encounters the need to determine the address of a remote machine in case of detection of third-party connections to his computer or if the resource owners or the interlocutor are suspected of fraud. An IP address is as unique as a fingerprint, so knowing it can be a good thing in some cases.
Step 2
How to determine the IP address? It depends on which address you want to define. To determine the ip of a site, just enter its domain name in the input field on one of the network services - for example, here:
Step 3
The site's IP address can be determined by pinging. Open Command Prompt: Start - All Programs - Accessories - Command Prompt. If, for example, you need to find out the Yandex network address, enter the command: ping www.yandex.ru and press Enter. The exchange of packages will begin, in the first line you will see the address of this resource.
Step 4
In some cases, you may need to find out from which network address the letter was sent to you. To do this, you can use the capabilities of postal services. So, if you are using Rambler, open the letter in the browser and select the "Mail headers" item in the "Other actions" menu. The header that opens will contain service information that usually the recipient of the letter does not see. It will also contain information about the network address from which the message was sent.
Step 5
Sometimes the user may notice that his computer is displaying an incomprehensible network activity - the connection indicator in the tray is active even when no pages are open. If no anti-virus database or OS update is taking place at this time, you should check the list of network connections. To do this, open a command prompt and enter the command netstat –aon.
Step 6
In the first column of the list that appears, you will see which ports are open on your computer, they are listed after the colon after the local address. The second column contains external addresses, and it is they that are of interest to you - these are the addresses of the remote computers with which the connection is made. You can find out which program is opening a particular port by remembering the process PID (last column) and running the tasklist command. Find in the second column the PID you already know, to the left of it you will see the name of the process you are looking for.
