Often when you're working on a computer, you need to connect to other computers to run software or check data on them. This could involve connecting to a business server used by your work team or ...

A computer public IP address is an IP address that is used to identify the system network. Sometimes, you might need to know the existing public IP address to fix connectivity issues. By the way, ...

While there are special programs that enable you to block access to specific IP addresses on a computer, the same results are possible by editing the Windows hosts file, present on all Windows ...

I have a user who's machine is not pingable on our network, using computer hostname or associated IP. However, in troubleshooting this, I see that the IP the machine actually has does not resolve to ...

I think you need to supply more details...<BR><BR>Are you trying to do the name/ip lookup on some other machine than the one whose MAC address you have? <BR><BR>The translation between IP and MAC ...

This tip is excerpted from "Network troubleshooting and diagnostics," Chapter 4 of The Shortcut Guide to Network Management for the Mid-Market, written by Greg Shields and published by ...