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An employee is having problems reaching URLs on the World Wide Web. You examine the addressing configuration for the employee's PC that is shown as follows: You have verified that you can open a…
The correct answer is D. 192.168.1.254. Since you can access websites by IP but not by name, the issue lies with name resolution. Pinging the configured DNS server (192.168.1.254) will verify whether the DNS service is reachable and functioning.
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Question
An employee is having problems reaching URLs on the World Wide Web. You examine the addressing configuration for the employee's PC that is shown as follows: You have verified that you can open a website on the employee's PC by entering the website's IP address in their browser. Which IP address should you ping to determine what the problem is?
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Options
- A192.168.1.130
- B192.168.1.1
- C192.168.1.253
- D192.168.1.254
How the community answered
(38 responses)- A3% (1)
- B8% (3)
- C5% (2)
- D84% (32)
Explanation
Since you can access websites by IP but not by name, the issue lies with name resolution. Pinging the configured DNS server (192.168.1.254) will verify whether the DNS service is reachable and functioning.
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#DNS resolution#name resolution failure#network addressing#ipconfig
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