Url to IP address translation
If I want to know the IP address of a website, then one way is to ping the website. For example, if I want to know the IP address of google.com, then I can ping it via the command prompt. So 74.125.236.195 is the IP address for Google. But suppose I want to know the IP address of superuser.com, and if I use the same method, then I get 198.252.206.16 as the IP address. If I put this IP address in the browser as an URL, then my browser does not take me to superuser.com.