What is the IP address of XXX.YYY.ZZZ?

If you are at a site with a deficient nameserver, you may need to know the IP address of a host to FTP files from it. You can get this information in two ways:

• By telnet:

    telnet nic.ddn.mil hostnames (or `telnet 192.112.36.5 101')
    hname XXX.YYY.ZZZ
  

• By e-mail:

    To: service@nic.ddn.mil
    Subject: host XXX.YYY.ZZZ
         or: whois XXX.YYY.ZZZ
         or: help
  

  or:

  
    To: resolve@cs.widener.edu
    body: site XXX.YYY.ZZZ
  
  

  Information from Brendan Kehoe <brendan@cs.widener.edu>.