Host name and internet id

[Brian Chan]

I hope this is the right newsgroup for my question: 

how do you find out the host numeric addess (eg 128.x.x.x) if you only
know its name like foo.bar.edu? 

Nicname and whois only work partially. If a site is not registered
at some location, how can you find out this numeric address besides
sending mail to root at foo.bar.edu?

Thank you very much for your time,

Brian
Stuttgart, FRG

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