On Monday 01 March 2004 07:09, Marty Landman wrote: > I recently wrote an exec to find the active ip addr's on my lan by > pinging every possibility on my class C network. This works nicely, > only taking about 15 seconds of wall time to complete. The output > looks like this: > > $ ./findIps > preparing pings > start pinging > 1 is on the network > 3 is on the network > 7 is on the network > 160 is on the network > 240 is on the network > End of story > $ > > Is there any way that I could also discover the names of each of > these active network locations? "nmap" will also ping as well as return the DNS name of the computers it finds "host <ip_address>" returns the DNS name "nmblookup -A <ip_address>" returns the Netbios name -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list