J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Char Jackson
writes:
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:14:53 -0400, wrote:
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on w10 PC:
ping gmail.com worked fine (got IP add for gmail,com = 74.208.232.28)
on XP PC:
ping gmail.com worked too (got IP add for gmail,com = 172.217.15.69))
Cool, DNS works. From a networking perspective, you're golden!
But why did he get different IP addresses?
Google has multiple IP addresses.
And a person in North America gets a different set
than you'd get in the UK.
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Over the years, I've used "www.sun.com" for this
test case, because it uses one IP address and
as far as I know, the same value world-wide.
And I think you can still ping it, amongst
other things. It's not a "pretty" web site,
but from a test perspective, it's been
consistent.
nslookup
www.sun.com
156.151.59.35
Paul