Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

I often have to find the IP address of a machine I'm working on (or need to work on). Sometimes, I need to unblock an IP address of a machine on my network, so the machine can reach a network share ...

Every device that connects to a network, including your iPhone, uses an IP address (short for Internet Protocol address) to communicate with other devices and access the internet. Think of an IP ...