Yes,
this is exactly what I was looking for!
Thank you very much!
It seems that this tool is part of Samba and Samba has to be installed ...
Rigler, Steve wrote:
Assuming your PC's are using WINS, you could try nmblookup:
nmblookup -A <ipaddr>
-Steve
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[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.
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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
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[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?
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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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