Re: Linux "ping -a " analogue

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All machines in the LAN use DHCP.
Do I still need to put the IP/names in /etc/hosts?

Are there any other options?


Ryan Golhar wrote:

The only way to do that is to put the names and ip addresses of the
machines in your lan in your /etc/hosts file.  There is no other way to
do it.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Milen Dimitrov [mailto:milend@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 12:49 PM
To: golharam@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Linux "ping -a " analogue



I tried "nslookup 192.168.0.1" but it didn't work. It works fine for public IP addresse but it doesn't work for the private

ones. (192.168.0.1)

Is there any other command/tool I can use to resolve IP addresses into names for PCs in my LAN????

Ryan Golhar wrote:



I think the Windows version uses NETBIOS to resolve names that don't have a DNS entry.

Use nslookup. That will return the name as registered with a DNS server. It won't use NETBIOS so private IP address probably won't be resolved unless its in your /etc/hosts files.

Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Milen Dimitrov
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 11:56 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Linux "ping -a " analogue



Hi gurus,

Windows' command "ping -a 192.168.0.1" will resolve the IP address
192.168.0.1 into to a name if possible.
What is the linux analogue of this command?
Linux ping command doesn't seem to be able to do that...
Any ideas?
============================
C:\>ping -a 192.168.0.1

Pinging MYNEWPC [192.168.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms =================================



















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