how can you verify that the site you get is not a fake?

[Alex White]

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bruce wrote:

| if i go to a site, how can i verify that the site that's displayed
is really
| the 'correct' site. is there a way to actually 'get' the ip
address, and
| then to determine if that ip address actually matches up to the
'owner' of
| the site i'm looking at....
|
| any thoughts/ideas/etc...
|
| thanks
|
| bruce
| bedouglas at earthlink.net

dig www.google.com

note name of google.com and the corresponding ip address.

http://ip.address.ofsite

Is that what you mean?

HTH
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