asked on 7/13/2011

I want to ping a host in Visual Basic and get as a return the IP address

Hi,

I know how to operate My.Computer.Network.Ping("label-2304", 1000).

It will give me true or false as a return.

What I am looking for is to ping the host and get the IP address back in return.

I am trying to write an application which gives me a list of all the hosts on a peer to peer network with their IP address.

Any ideas?

Best regards

Max

Visual Basic.NET Networking Protocols Windows Networking

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kaufmed

7/14/2011

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zettler92656

7/14/2011

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That works perfect.

How do I this the other way around.

(to loop from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.255) and get all the host names?

kaufmed

7/14/2011

(to loop from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.255) and get all the host names?

You should be able to modify the above to accomplish this. I don't have a DNS server to test against, but I believe it should be:

Module Module1

  Sub Main()
    Const base As String = "192.168.0."

    For curr As Integer = 1 To 255
      Dim ip As System.Net.IPHostEntry = System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(base & curr.ToString())

      Console.WriteLine(ip.HostName)
    Next

    Console.ReadKey()
  End Sub

End Module

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