help with ip address
 

how do i get a ip address from a ftp site im trying to install suse10 through ftp but its asking me for the ip. can some one tell me how to figure out the ip address from this url ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/

or would you be able to post the ip address for me?
thank you

ping it....

ping mirrors.kernel.org
Reply from 204.152.191.7: bytes=32

thank you i tried ping but i left the ftp:// which by the looks of things i made the mistake thank you once again

$ ping -c3 mirrors.kernel.org
PING mirrors.kernel.org (204.152.191.39) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from mirrors2.kernel.org (204.152.191.39): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=59.9 ms
64 bytes from mirrors2.kernel.org (204.152.191.39): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=60.2 ms
64 bytes from mirrors2.kernel.org (204.152.191.39): icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=60.1 ms

It's not the IP address of kernel.org it's asking for, but the IP address of a SUSE 10.0 repository. Check here for a list of mirrors and choose the one closest to you.

You don't actually need to put the IP address in; you can just enter the human-readable address and it'll work.