Question

Due to firewall constraints, the servers I deal with do not reply to a ping, but do give their IP address

for eg, if I do :

ping myhost.com

I get

Pinging myhost.com [192.1.1.1] with 32 bytes of data:
Request Timed Out.

How can I just get the IP of the server from powershell? I know it can be done various ways if a server responds to a ping (Test-Connection or Ping-Host) , but I cant figure it when it ignores ping requests

Answer 1

You can use the System.Net.Dns.GetHostAddresses method.
This method will return an array of System.Net.IPAddress objects.

Examples of usage:

$ipAddresses = [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses('google.com')

List all addresses:

$ipAddresses | %{$_.IPAddressToString}

Grab the first address in the array:

$ipAddresses[0].IPAddressToString