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What is my IP address? Who is the host of this website? Which mail service is this domain using? There exist web tools that can uncover these details but this sort of research can also be done using the command line on your computer.
Let’s explore a few essential networking commands that will help you know everything about a website from the terminal itself.
What is my IP address
curl https://checkip.amazonaws.com
Make a curl or wget request to the checkip.amazonaws.com and it prints the public IP address of your computer. You can also connect to Akamai’s whatismyip.akamai.com domain get your external IP address.
What is my Private IP address
ifconfig en0 |grep inet
Your computer has a private IP address that only work within the local network. For older Macs with a wired Ethernet port, use en0 for Ethernet interface or en1 for the WiFi interface. The networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder command will print a list all network interfaces available on your machine.
Find the Location of IP address
curl https://ip2c.org/?ip=8.8.8.8
The free ‘ip2c’ service resolves an IP address to the country.
Or use the ‘ipapi’ service to get more details of an IP address including the city name, timezone and even the latitude and longitude associated with an IP address.
curl https://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/json
Check DNS Records
The dig command will help you query for any type of DNS records for a domain from the command line.
1. Find the IP address of a website
dig +short www.labnol.org
2. Find the Mail Server of Domain
The Mail Exchange (MX) records specify the incoming mail servers that used for delivering email messages sent to your domain name.
host -t MX labnol.org
3. Print all DNS Records of a Domain
Get a list of all DNS records of a domain including TXT records, MX records and name servers. The name servers handle queries regarding the location of the domain’s website, email and other services.
dig +nocmd amazon.com any +noall +answer
Who is hosting a website?
Use the dig command to find the IP address of a website and then use the same dig command to perform a reverse lookup to find the host of that IP address.
For instance, this command will print the IP address of the Netflix website:
dig +short netflix.com A |tail -1
Use that IP address in the next command to get the hostname:
dig +nocmd -x 52.11.104.17 +noall +answer
Find the owner of the website
Use the built-in whois command to reveal important information about any web domain including the date when it was first registered, the contact details of the website owner, the expiration date of the domain, the name of the domain registrar and so on.
whois dictation.io
You can also query the domain registration details on a specific registrar’s server with the -h flag. For instance, the next command performs a whois lookup on a website using the WHOIS server of Google Domains.
whois -h whois.google.com reverse.photos
Test Network Connectivity with Ping
The ping command helps you test if a remote host is reachable and whether your machine can connect to it properly.
ping -c 5 -i 2 labnol.org
The above command pings the host 5 time and there’s a 2 second wait between pings.
Where’s the fault?
If your Internet connection is working but you are unable to reach a website, there could be an issue with an intermediate router that the packets have to pass through to reach the server.
The traceroute commands prints the network path from your local computer to the website that the traffic must pass through and this information can be useful for diagnosing connectivity issues.
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In this article, you find some useful shortcuts for VS Code, which will help you to build or frame your programs. Shortcuts in programming are important, as they make life easier for developers — not to mention, at least to me, they feel like you're playing with your keyboard.
To use the shortcuts, you have to install some pluggings and VScode extensions to accelerate your program flow and have a great experience.
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