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January 10th, 2008, 04:39 AM

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Get hostname from ip address

Hi,

I always thought ping -a x.x.x.x would retrieve the hostname with the pings, but I must be wrong as it's not working.

Can anyone remind me of the command?

Any help is much appreciated.

January 10th, 2008, 12:17 PM

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That is the correct syntax for the ping command. I tested it out, as well, and it still works for me. You should get a response like the following:

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Pinging hostname.domain.suffix [xxx.xxx.xx.xx] with 32 bytes of data:

etc...etc...etc...

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January 10th, 2008, 04:56 PM

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nslookup can do reverse DNS on IP's. On your own computer 'hostname' at a command prompt will return the computer name. There are additional tools at www.sysinternals.com

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