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Geek Culture / How can I get an IP from an expired domain?

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Fallout
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Posted: 28th Jun 2009 20:15
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My domain name expired a few days ago, but I still have my hosting package. So I should still be able to link to my files using http://ip/filename. The thing is, how do I find out the IP address now the domain has been brought down? There must be some sort of history on the web or in my browser which contains the IP. Any ideas chaps?

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 28th Jun 2009 20:35
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This would only work if your host gave you a dedicated IP address for your site. Most cheap/budget hosts don't, you share IP with lots of other customers, and then their servers redirect content requests based on the host header.

If you were assigned a dedicated IP they would almost certainly have told you what it was when you signed-up. Do you still have any of those emails?

Another way would be to try and dig the domain directly by querying a nameserver (ideally your hosts). There are lots of online nsdig tools that can do this for you.


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Here this worked ok for me:

http://nsdig.com/index.pl


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the_winch
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Posted: 28th Jun 2009 21:03 Edited at: 28th Jun 2009 21:06
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Add this to your HOSTS file


Also many shared webhosts will allow access through one of their own domains. Something like http://site123.hosted.com or http://hosted.com/site123
Log into the control panel or search their help pages to see if you can find it.

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Posted: 29th Jun 2009 00:38
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You chaps are right. No dedicated IP. That makes sense now I think about it. So I'd have to go down your route the_winch of using the alternate URL, except I don't think my hosting company provides one. I'm with Hostroute/Myqth. I can't find examples or documentation/help explaining how I'd link to it any other way than with a registered domain that they'd set up. Hmmmm.

All is not lost. I can get free low-speed hosting, as a guy I live with runs a file server from our house. So upload won't be great, but it'll still work. Alternatively, I could buy another package. I just don't see the point in paying for a domain anymore when all I use it for is hotlinking URLs which I post on other boards.

Thanks for your help though chaps. I'll have a think about what to do. Meanwhile, there will be A LOT of dead links about for all my stuff!

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