How to find Google's IP address?

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yorelog picture yorelog · Dec 27, 2014 · Viewed 209.9k times · Source

Google is blocked in some countries. However, there are many ways to access Google, like VPN, agent, and by changing the hosts file.

If I want to change the hosts file to access Google, how can I find an available IP address?

Update

I can't access Google, so I can't Google the answer to this question.

ping doesn't work; I get this error:

Request timed out

Answer

reirab picture reirab · Dec 27, 2014

nslookup google.com is the easiest way. Works on Linux and Windows.

If your issue is that your DNS server is not returning a response for google.com, use a different DNS server, such as a public one. For instance, you could do:

nslookup
>server 8.8.8.8
>google.com

For a more thorough solution to getting around annoying Internet filters, look into using Tor.

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