howei
asked on
How to find LAN machine name?
I have one machine on the network (W2K) which is responding to ping but can't find what is it.
I tried "ping -a IP", "nbtstat -A IP", tried looking into DNS table but can't find its machine/windows name.
This got to be static IP, not DHCP assigned.
What else can I do?
Thanks for help
I tried "ping -a IP", "nbtstat -A IP", tried looking into DNS table but can't find its machine/windows name.
This got to be static IP, not DHCP assigned.
What else can I do?
Thanks for help
SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
What kind of firewall are you using ? Are you running NAT through your firewall... curious to know the Ip addresses (internal )you are seeing...No proxy servers etc?
ASKER
Good guess kabaam!
I was able to telnet into this unit and discovered that it is switch/router.
We had some change recently but I wasn't aware that they added this one.
Firewall is ISA, which does NAT.
I noticed that even on some windows machines you can't soemetimes get return on machine name when you ping it with -a switch (it should usually return machine name). Any cluess on how this is done?
I was able to telnet into this unit and discovered that it is switch/router.
We had some change recently but I wasn't aware that they added this one.
Firewall is ISA, which does NAT.
I noticed that even on some windows machines you can't soemetimes get return on machine name when you ping it with -a switch (it should usually return machine name). Any cluess on how this is done?
I believe ping -a will use the REVERSE lookup zone from the DNS server.
Check your reverse lookup zone entries and you should see what will work using ping -a
just a guess though
Check your reverse lookup zone entries and you should see what will work using ping -a
just a guess though
there is a neat program called Look@LAN you should try. While it would not have solved this issue it may have eliminated a lot of possibilies.
ASKER
Thank you for sharing Mark. It is neat!
We used nslookup and could find the machine name from the IP address.
hope that helps the next person who stumbles onto this thread.
thanks everyone.
hope that helps the next person who stumbles onto this thread.
thanks everyone.
ASKER
I did tracert to an internet site and noticed that my packets are first going to this machine on the LAN and than to firewal which was not the case in the past.
How do you hide machine name from "ping -a IP" command anyways?