Posted by:
Mnemonic
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Date: July 20, 2017 02:35PM
I'm going to post this for anyone who may be interested in how I got the IP address for exmormon.org or would like to use this technique for getting around DNS filtering by entering the IP address directly into the address bar (URL).
Domain Name Servers (DNS) are the Internet's equivalent of a phone book. They maintain a directory of domain names and translate them to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
When you do a DNS query you get back many fields of information regarding the requested host name. The record that you're interested in to open the webpage in your browser is the "A" record.
There are several websites which will do a DNS query for you and display the results, kind of like how google does for regular searches. Two of these are:
https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspxhttps://www.ultratools.com/tools/dnsLookupAfter you've looked up the IP address for the website you want, in this case "204.238.168.42" for "exmormon.org", copy it and paste it in your web browser's address bar. You can prepend the address with "
http://" if you want but you don't have to because the browser automatically assumes you want to open a HTTP connection. If you want a secure connection you need to prepend the address with "
https://".
NOTE: Enter http:// and https:// without the quotation marks.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/20/2017 02:39PM by Mnemonic.