How can I, with a windows xp machine, tell a Hostname (given the IP) without using a 3rd party tool. I have looked in DNS but no listing is given. However, I can ping the device.
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There has to be a revserse DNS record for the IP address. If one has not been established then you will not be able to get it's hostname. Is this an IP on your local LAN or on the internet?
ping -a <ipaddress> is what will give you the hostname as long as the record exisit.
NSLOOKUP will do the same thing.
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Still without a reverse record of some sort still wont work. Here is my cisco pix which has no reverse DNS record:
U:\>nbtstat -an 192.168.10.1
Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [192.168.10.50] Scope Id: []
Host not found.
U:\>
It looked at my DNS server 192.168.10.50 for the reverse record and returned no host found.
The distinction here is that nbtstat will return the NetBIOS host name, and DNS will return the DNS hostname. On windows computers, however, these are usually the same.
Since the pix probably doesn't support NetBIOS names, or doesn't have it turned on, it is not registering itself with the Master Browser (or by broadcasting for that matter), and therefore nbtstat is not going to work. If the pix also doesn't have a reverse DNS entry, then I assume that it was statically configured with an IP address and only the forward listing was manually entered in the DNS server.
So basically, if you want to use DNS for the reverse lookup, you should use nslookup, but the DNS server will have to have a reverse record for that computer.
If you want to use NetBIOS, then you can use NBTSTAT, but not all devices on a network register themselves for that service.
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by: orangutangPosted on 2007-05-06 at 20:30:07ID: 19040868
I think you can do something like:
ping /a google.com
Or am I not understanding your question?