Question
how to find my server's ip address?
- Posted on April 2, 2020
- Ubuntu 18.04
Asked by avanishchauhan08
how to find my server’s ip address?
i got my server name but i can not find my server ip address
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Hi there @avanishchauhan08,
There are a few ways to do that:
pingcommand to ping your hostname:ipor theifconfigcommands:Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
If you’re using the
iputility from the (Debian/Ubuntu)iproute2package, you can see all configured IP addresses on your system using:This can be shortened to:
You are likely to only be interested in your main network device: on DO VMs, this has the public-facing IP address. To get info for just this network adapter:
Some very old installs may still use the old (now deprecated)
ifconfigcommand (from the nettools package). This is not the preferred way of handling IP addresses in Linux but here’s the command in case needed:i got my server name but i can not find my static server ip address