Find IP Address of Facebook

This wikiHow teaches you how to view Facebook's IP address, which determines Facebook's servers' physical location.

Steps

Right-click the Start icon. It's in the bottom-left corner of most Windows computers. Doing so will bring up a menu with quick-access options.
- You can also tap the ⊞ Win+X to open this menu.
Click Command Prompt. This app's icon resembles a black box; clicking it will open your computer's Command Prompt app.
- If you don't see Command Prompt in this menu, type "command prompt" into the Start menu's search bar and then click Command Prompt at the top of the search results.
- You may not be able to open Command Prompt on a networked or shared computer (e.g., a school or work computer).
Type ping www.facebook.com -t into Command Prompt. There isn't a specific text field to type in, but your text should appear in the Command Prompt window as you type.^[1]
- Make sure you don't type in any extra characters or spaces.
Tap ↵ Enter. Doing so will run your command, which requests Facebook's address. You'll see a series of numbers displayed like "12.34.56.78" (or similar) appearing on the page; this series of numbers is Facebook's IP address.

Open Spotlight search. Do so by clicking the magnifying glass icon in the top-right corner of the screen.
Type Terminal into the search bar. You should see apps appear below the bar as you type.
Click on the Terminal icon. It resembles a black window with a white ">_" in its top-left corner.
Type ping facebook.com into Terminal. This command requests the IP address from Facebook.
- Make sure you don't insert any extra spaces or characters.
Tap ⏎ Return. Doing so will run your Terminal command, thereby displaying Facebook's IP address.
Look for Facebook's IP address. It's the line of numbers to the right of the line of text that says "[Number of] bytes from" (exclusive of the colon at the end).
- For example, the IP address might look like "12.34.56.78" or something similar.