Workshop

• At the command line of your computer, enter the command ping localhost and write down the IP address that you see.

• At the command line of your computer, enter the command hostname and write down the hostname that is returned. On Windows 95/98, the hostname does not work, but it is visible from WinIPCfg.

• Enter a ping command followed by the hostname for your computer.

• If you computer has a domain name, ping your FQDN.

• Determine whether IP is configured to use a DNS server. If so, try the following pings:

  ping www.internic.net
  ping www.whitehouse.gov
  

• Use NSLookup to connect to one of your ISP's DNS servers.