Resolving IP Address from hostname with PowerShell

Question

I am trying to get the ipaddress from a hostname using Powershell  but I really can t figure out how   Any help

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You can get all the IP addresses with GetHostAddresses like this:

$ips = [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses("yourhosthere")

You can iterate over them like so:

[System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses("yourhosthere") | foreach {echo $_.IPAddressToString }

A server may have more than one IP, so this will return an array of IPs.

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Working one liner if you want a single result from the collection    ipAddy    System Net Dns   GetHostAddresses  yahoo com   0  IPAddressToString     hth

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this is nice and simple and gets all the nodes    ip   Resolve-DNSName google com  ip   also try inputting an ip instead of a domain name and check out those results too

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You can use this code if you have a bunch of hosts in text file     a   get-content  C  Users host txt  file path    foreach   i in  a          i     n                                  System Net Dns   GetHostAddresses  i

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computername    env computername      System Net Dns   GetHostAddresses  computername     where     AddressFamily -notlike  InterNetworkV6     foreach  echo    IPAddressToString

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The simplest way   ping hostname   e g   ping dynlab938 meng auth gr   it will print     Pinging dynlab938 meng auth gr  155 207 29 38  with 32 bytes of data

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If you know part of the subnet  i e  10 3 in this example   then this will grab any addresses that are in the given subnet   PS C   gt   System Net Dns   GetHostAddresses  MyPC     foreach      IPAddressToString   findstr  10 3

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This worked well for my purpose   ping   ping -4  env COMPUTERNAME  ip    ping Item 2   ip    ip Substring 11 11

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Use Resolve-DnsName cmdlet   Resolve-DnsName computername   FT Name  IPAddress -HideTableHeaders   Out-File -Append c  filename txt     PS C   gt  Resolve-DnsName stackoverflow com  Name                                           Type   TTL   Section    IPAddress ----                                           ----   ---   -------    --------- stackoverflow com                              A      130   Answer     151 101 65 69 stackoverflow com                              A      130   Answer     151 101 129 69 stackoverflow com                              A      130   Answer     151 101 193 69 stackoverflow com                              A      130   Answer     151 101 1 69  PS C   gt  Resolve-DnsName stackoverflow com   Format-Table Name  IPAddress -HideTableHeaders  stackoverflow com 151 101 65 69 stackoverflow com 151 101 1 69 stackoverflow com 151 101 193 69 stackoverflow com 151 101 129 69     PS C   gt  Resolve-DnsName -Type A google com  Name                                           Type   TTL   Section    IPAddress ----                                           ----   ---   -------    --------- google com                                     A      16    Answer     216 58 193 78   PS C   gt  Resolve-DnsName -Type AAAA google com  Name                                           Type   TTL   Section    IPAddress ----                                           ----   ---   -------    --------- google com                                     AAAA   223   Answer     2607 f8b0 400e c04  64

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The Test-Connection command seems to be a useful alternative  and it can either provide either a Win32 PingStatus object  or a boolean value   Documentation  https   msdn microsoft com en-us powershell reference 5 1 microsoft powershell management test-connection

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You could use vcsjones s solution  but this might cause problems with further ping tracert commands  since the result is an array of addresses and you need only one  To select the proper address  Send an ICMP echo request and read the Address property of the echo reply   ping   New-Object System Net NetworkInformation Ping  ip      ping Send  quot yourhosthere quot   Address  IPAddressToString  Though the remarks from the documentation say   The Address returned by any of the Send overloads can originate from a malicious remote computer  Do not connect to the remote computer using this address  Use DNS to determine the IP address of the machine to which you want to connect

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