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Is there a way to show the difference between pinging a url and pinging an ip address?

asked 2020-09-25 17:08:24 +0000

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I'm wondering if when you are capturing packets in wireshark- is there a way to show the difference between pinging a url and that url's ip address?

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What do you mean by "pinging" a URL? As @Chuckc notes, "pinging" usually refers to trying to check whether a IP address is reachable; a URL may contains more than just an IP address or host name - http://example.com is a different URL from http://example.com/home.html, for example.

In "pinging a URL" do you mean something other than "pinging" in the ICMP sense?

Guy Harris gravatar imageGuy Harris ( 2020-09-25 19:08:56 +0000 )edit
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answered 2020-09-25 18:20:13 +0000

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It might help to differentiate between "ping" and ICMP.
Ping is a software tool that uses ICMP messages to poll (request/reply) an IP address.
So at the IP level there is no difference.

What is different is the name resolution that takes place at a higher level to convert the URL to an IP address.
That could be a local host file, an entry in the local DNS cache or may require sending a request to a DNS server.

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