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i am connected to the internet through a LAN. When I see my IP in Windows 7 when using netstat -a, my IP is 172.19..., but when I used Linux (Ubuntu), for just checking a host name by nslookup, there was my server address which was 192.168....

Why is my IP different in netstat and nslookup?

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@iglvzx...i respect your zest to close a duplicate question(nice work )...but i don't think this question is anywhere near the question you suggested...if you look at both of my ip addresses,they are both private(172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255 and 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255 )...so there is no question of any IP being of the router...plz comment and clear my doubt as answers have been disabled – avinash Dec 30 '11 at 14:40
Ah. My bad. Thanks for clarifying... Are Windows and Ubuntu on the same machine? Dual-boot? Virtualized? It is possible that Ubuntu is set up to use NAT. – iglvzx Dec 30 '11 at 16:31
Also, note that nslookup is for querying the DNS servers. – iglvzx Dec 30 '11 at 16:35
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VMs use private internal addressing and NAT to function, mapping these to the actual underlying hardware address of the host machine. This is normal, expected behavior of a virtualized instance.

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@gmari...so in actuality the nat of lan provides me which ip? – avinash Dec 30 '11 at 17:56
I don't understand your question. – Garrett Dec 30 '11 at 18:01
@avinash: each operating system (VM host Windows and VM guest Linux) is on a separate LAN, one LAN is virtual. If so configured, NAT translates the guest's IP-address to that of the host for communicating through the physical LAN. – RedGrittyBrick Dec 30 '11 at 18:05
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