
It will find the MAC address and hardware address of the host from the IP address. It stands for address resolution protocol. By running this command prompt is shifted to the network shell. Check what directory you are in (remember the command is just pwd not pwd because the just means you are in the terminal) pwd show what’s in the current directory ls make a new directory (Check that this is there in the file explorer. It will help the user to view and configure every adapter on the system because it provides plenty of context within the shell-like routing-related command, diagnosis command, etc. TIME_WAIT (can see in the above image)- local endpoint (your system) has closed the connection. The active connection is about port (TCP) is open and ready to accept the connection request. If we are managing a huge college campus network, then this tool is useful because it provides an advanced aspect of the network.īy running this command, will show the number of active connections on the system. It is used for network statics, diagnostics, and analysis. Success ratio to this is not 100% because not all IP addresses will show the domain name and they might not be reachable. We can find out the domain name with the help of IP address by entering the IP address in the web browser and see where it leads to. You can see in the below image IP address is different for the same domain name. Fact is if we run this command over and over, we will get different IP addresses for a website like google, yahoo, Flipkart because these domains have spread to different machines. When we want to know the IP address of the domain we can use this command.
