How to go to a website on a shared server by its ip address?

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Published on 2012-09-14T23:25:43Z Indexed on 2012/09/15 3:40 UTC
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I have a few questions, please help:

Fist, I can access google search just by typing

http://74.125.224.211

because this is the ip address returned by nslookup.

However, I could not do so with ip addresses returned from www.yahoo.com. How do I go to yahoo search page by its ip ?

Another example, http://www.allaboutcircuits.com will resolve to

68.233.243.63

by DNS server, but if I go to

http://68.233.243.63

I got "Hello world!" , lol !

Second, for some reason, there is something wrong with DNS resolvers with my web hosting service (it will not be fixed !!). So command like,

get_file_contents("http://www.allaboutcircuits.com");

will return php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known

How do I get around this with IP address ,

68.233.243.63

I mean somehow attach the HTTP hostname parameter to get_file_contents() ?

I would like to solve this on my own side (in my code), no troubleshooting/adjustment will be done by server admin.

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