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Appendix D: How to Ping your ISP’s E-mail and Web addresses
Virtually all Internet addresses are configured with words or characters (e.g.,
www.corinex.com, www.yahoo.com, etc.) However, recently these Internet addresses
are assigned to IP addresses, which are the true addresses on the Internet. For
example, www.corinex.com is recently
81.0.193.56
at the time of producing this manual.
If you type this address into your web browser, you will end up at the Corinex home
page every time.
Some servers translate the URL to an IP address, so called DNS (Domain Name
System) Servers. However, IP and web addresses can be long and hard to remember
sometimes. From this reason, certain ISPs will shorten their server addresses to single
words or codes on their users’ web browser or e-mail configurations. If your ISP’s email
and web server addresses are configured with single words (www, e-mail, home, pop3,
etc.) rather than entire Internet addresses or IP addresses, the Access Point may have
problems by sending or receiving mail and by accessing the Internet.
The solution is to determine the true web addresses behind your ISPs code words. You
can determine the IP and web addresses of your ISP’s servers by “pinging” them.
Important:
If you don’t have your ISP’s web and e-mail IP addresses, you must either
get them from your ISP or follow these steps prior to connecting your
Corinex Wireless
to Powerline Access Point
to your network.
D.1 Step One: Pinging an IP Address
The first step to determining your ISP’s web and e-mail server address is to ping its IP
address.
1. Power on the computer and the cable or DSL modem, and restore the network
configuration set by your ISP if you have changed it.
2. Click
Start
, then
Run
, and type
command
. This will bring up the DOS window.
3. At DOS command prompt, type
ping corinex.com
(assuming that your desired
IP address location is configured as corinex.com) and press Enter. As an
example, the following data information on Figure 11.1., taken from a ping of
Microsoft Network e-mail server, will be displayed.