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When diagnosing networking problems, I ping to:

  1. My local IP
  2. My gateway IP
  3. An external IP
  4. An external domain name

Usually, when troubleshooting, the internet is unaccessible, then I need to remember an external IP address.

I need any (easy to remember) IP address. By example, google ip is 72.14.204.147. Cool, but it's hard to remember...

What external IP you use? Do you have an mnemonic external IP address, then will be easy to remember?

quack quixote
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Click Ok
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Alternative solution: if you do this on a single machine only, you could write a little batch file which executes four ping commands.

This way you'll just have to remember the name of that batch file.

BTW: the IP addresses I use are Google's DNS server: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

splattne
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Or you could pick a service you like and that is pingable, and give that IP a name in your hosts file; /etc/hosts on Unixlikes and %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows.

Jakob Borg
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OpenDNS is
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

I use them for testing (they've been around longer than google's DNS).

Edit: You can ping these addresses. The fact that they are DNS servers is incidental to the proposed use here. They are merely another set of (reliable) options to use.

Fake Name
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You can place any label you want in your hosts file, and assign an address. Like

google-bynumber    72.14.204.147

Naturally, whatever name you pick collides with the real one, so pick one that wouldn't occur in real life. As a bonus you can use it in your browser and skip all the ping business (since lots of times it's a dns problem). I have bookmarks pointing to such things (as well as local printers).

gbarry
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Unless I'm missing something here, your external IP address is provided by your ISP.

You can make this more memorable by using a free DNS service such as DyDNS.

For example, instead of;

ping 87.145.43.6

You have;

ping clickok.getmyip.com

(The DyDNS domains you can use are any from this list)

RJFalconer
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