Assuming your PC's are using WINS, you could try nmblookup: nmblookup -A <ipaddr> -Steve -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Milen Dimitrov Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 1:06 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Linux "ping -a " analogue 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. > >----- >Ryan Golhar >Computational Biologist >The Informatics Institute at >The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ > >Phone: 973-972-5034 >Fax: 973-972-7412 >Email: golharam@xxxxxxxxx > >-----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 >>================================= >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
