1] Find the IP address using the ping command The “ping” command makes it easy to, not only find out a website’s IP address, but also other relevant information about its server.

Then ping that address and see if you can reach it. Once you can talk to the IP, then use nslookup to check the forward and reverse resolution.

I'm trying to figure out why I can't ping several machines by name. The nameservers in the following example, are running Windows 2008 R2. The nfs servers are running Ubuntu Karmic. NFS1 and NFS2 ...