Hello all . I have a bit of a silly question , however, one of my friends changed his dns settings as he was switching host but he forgot one thing, his IP addy for his old site . Since the propagation to the new dns is complete , is there anyway that we can pull up the old ip of his site so that we can login and get his files?
Any help would be greatly appreciated . .

I think whois.sc may have something that may help you(I am not 100% sure)

I think whois.sc may have something that may help you(I am not 100% sure)
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Perhaps his old host still has domain information in it's nameservers?

Login into unix/linux shell and type:

dig @your_old_host_dns_server.com yourdomain.com

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What does this mean?

Do the nameservers of old host still exist? If yes, then you can switch back to old host dns info, perform dnsreport after 15 minutes from dnsreport.com and again switch back to new dns information.

or simply perform nameserver whois from www.whois.net/whois.html

or send a ticket to old host inquiring about your IP address.

My buddy doesn't even know what the old dns servers were. You see, someone else handled all of the web site stuff and now , that person is out of the picture and he didn't tell me anything until after he has changed his dns settings to reflect the new server and this is where the problem is . I asked him even if he knew of any others sites that were hosted by the same people , and he didn't know . He has no clue where it was hosted at all. Any more ideas would be greatly appreciated as I am sure there has to be a way to figure this out.

Are you trying to link the domain to the old web site, or are you just after the content so that you can download it and copy it to a different web server?

If you're just after the content then you may be able to obtain this from www.archive.org

I am not aware of any way of obtaining historical DNS records.

The old webmaster is gone and they do not have the ip addy or anything like that as to where the site was prior to changing the dns settings. This said, the only thing we would need is the ip address to the site (prior to the change) As I have stated, they don't even know where it was hosted at and such , obviously making this more difficult . However, with the old ip address, then we could get into the control panel and such to get all of their old files.

What makes you so sure that the files are still on the original web server?

What makes you so sure that the files are still on the original web server?
I have resolved this issue. As for your response, please tell me thats a joke!

I have resolved this issue. As for your response, please tell me thats a joke!

Why should it be a joke? It is not exactly unusual for a web hosting company to remove a customer's files when that customer becomes an ex-customer.

It's a joke because you are completly off topic . I am asking for ways to retrieve the IP addy and your talking about something in your own little world. These are the kinds of comments that make people think , "is this person really that dumb'?
>What makes you so sure that the files are still on the original web server?

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You asked a question. We did our best to answer it. And you have courage to call people who tried to help you DUMB? I think you need to drasticallty change your attitude towards the world.
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if the old host didn't expire and you still remember the old nameservers just dig the nameserver from any *nix command prompt
dig @ns1.example.com www.example.net A

or so

if the old host didn't expire and you still remember the old nameservers just dig the nameserver from any *nix command prompt
dig @ns1.example.com www.example.net A

or so

This what I've suggested few post above. Unfortunately, the member who asked doesn't know even his old nameservers.

whats the name? maybe i can look it up at whois.sc for you and find a history for it

It's a joke because you are completly off topic . I am asking for ways to retrieve the IP addy and your talking about something in your own little world. These are the kinds of comments that make people think , "is this person really that dumb'?
>What makes you so sure that the files are still on the original web server?

Well, thank you so much. It seems that you were lucky and that the old files WERE still there. There was probably a 50:50 chance (at best) of that being the case. I was trying to tell you about another way of retrieving old files - which is to use www.archive.org which has archived copies of most of the world's web sites. If those files hadn't still been on the old web server then that information could have been crucial.

I will know better than to try and help people in future.

As they say in Germany, "Undank ist der Welt Lohn"

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You asked a question. We did our best to answer it. And you have courage to call people who tried to help you DUMB? I think you need to drasticallty change your attitude towards the world.
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The prices of tampons just went up in Japan . :S

This what I've suggested few post above. Unfortunately, the member who asked doesn't know even his old nameservers.
If you would have read the thread, you would have seen that I already stated that this was not for me .