Get hostname from IP address on internal network

tekmann33 · 11-09-2007, 08:49 AM

I am a lowly Systems Tech at a company and I am assigning IP addresses to laptops to be added to the domain.

I am trying to give laptop number 33 the private IP 10.3.0.33, but it looks like another computer has that address already.

I have a Fedora 6 machine on the network and I can ping the 10.3.0.33 address, but is there a way that I can pull its hostname to figure out which one it is?

TB0ne · 11-09-2007, 09:10 AM

Try "nslookup <ip address>", and it will return a host name. This will only work, though, if that address is in DNS, or is somehow defined.

tekmann33 · 11-09-2007, 09:23 AM

No, our PC's on the internal network are not defined in the DNS server.

bathory · 11-09-2007, 09:26 AM

Quote:

Try "nslookup <ip address>", and it will return a host name. This will only work, though, if that address is in DNS, or is somehow defined.

This is a samba command and uses netbios and not dns to get names/IPs. You need samba installed in your system to use it. The correct syntax to get the computer name from the IP is

Code:

nmblookup -A xx.xx.xx.xx

tekmann33 · 11-09-2007, 09:44 AM

Beautiful!

Thankyou!