how to get IP adress of google search/crawler bot to add to our white list of ip address

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Published on 2011-02-11T06:25:09Z Indexed on 2011/02/11 7:33 UTC
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Hi,

Google webmaster tools says network unreachable. When i contacted my hosting provider they said that they have installed firewall which could block frequent incoming ip addresses and they dont know the google's ip adress to unblock. so they requested me to find google search/crawler bot's ip adress so that they can add it to their whitelist.

How to find the ip address of google search bot or crawler bot?

My site stopped appearing in google search. My hits had gone too low.

What should i do? any kind of reply would he helpful.

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