How do I know where a site is hosted at?

[slicksilver]

my question is in the title itself? ....let us take an example....how do I know where Yahoo's servers are located?

Raj

 

[warlord]

physically? as in new york or LA?

you can obtain an ip address by doing a tracert. fyi you can do this from a dos propt: tracert www.yahoo.com.

 

[slicksilver]

is there anything else other than tracert? I want something graphical ....Precise location...


Thanks

Raj

 

[Ladi]

Precise location isn't always possible. You can try this graphical tracert: http://www.neotrace.com, but if the routers/servers don't return a physical location, you're SOL. You can make some educated guesses by the IPs returned by tracert (aka, if *.nyc.* exists in it, you can assume the route goes through new york city...), and you can do whois lookups on the domain (http://www.arin.net/whois/, network solutions' whois) and make some assumptions, but that's about it.

~Ladi