find the ip address of ns1.linode.com

Hi there,

You can locate the IP address of ns1.linode.com by running a 'dig' command. Here's the current output:

dig +short ns1.linode.com
162.159.27.72

For your reference, running a 'whois' on 162.159.27.72 shows that the IP is behind CloudFlare:

NetRange: 162.158.0.0 - 162.159.255.255
CIDR: 162.158.0.0/15
NetName: CLOUDFLARENET
NetHandle: NET-162-158-0-0-1
Parent: NET162 (NET-162-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Direct Assignment
OriginAS: AS13335
Organization: Cloudflare, Inc. (CLOUD14)
RegDate: 2013-05-23
Updated: 2017-02-17
Comment: All Cloudflare abuse reporting can be done via https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse
Ref: https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-162-158-0-0-1

I hope this helps. Feel free to update this Community post with any additional questions.

Hey there,

Another side note, you can also run this command to find the IP behind our other nameservers:

 for x in {1..5}; do echo "ns$x.linode.com" && dig +short ns$x.linode.com; done
 ns1.linode.com
 162.159.27.72
 ns2.linode.com
 162.159.24.39
 ns3.linode.com
 162.159.25.129
 ns4.linode.com
 162.159.26.99
 ns5.linode.com
 162.159.24.25

ping ns1.linode.com

Pinging ns1.linode.com [162.159.27.72] with 32 bytes of data: