I need to resolve an IP to the machine name ....

[HardwareAddicted]

And I cant remember the command ... DOH

It's currnetly off the network, so ping returns nothing ...

Can you guys remind me what I could try to get the machine name ?

Some kind of DNS query ??

Thx !!

~ Mark

 

[martind1]

well if you ahve the ip why do y ou need the machine name?

anyways

nbtstat -a ipaddress

 

[HardwareAddicted]

Well I am responsible for only part of a very large network ... and just started this job a couple of weeks ago.

So when I got a call from the MAIN IT dept saying that they had an IP and it was comprimised and blocked.

It looks as it was in my scope of addresses ... but I have no listing for using that IP in my spreadsheet ...

I know my naming structure, and was trying to determine what the name was to let them know it was not mine, and someone was using one of my static entries.

Anyway .... that's why .... thx for the tip.

 

[martind1]

well now.

that was the only acceptable answer I was willign to accept, lol.

right on the money too, this amuses me

 

[stash]

nslookup?

 

[Peabody]

arp -a or ipconfig /displaydns from the C prompt?

 

[chorner]

Originally posted by: martind1
well if you ahve the ip why do y ou need the machine name?

anyways

nbtstat -a ipaddress

Isn't it nbtstat -A ipaddress ? .. there is a difference between -a and -A

-a is to list a machines name table by addressing its name
-A is to list a machines name table by addressing its IP

 

[martind1]

yep it is -A, my bad

 

[Soybomb]

nslookup 192.168.0.123
and thats called a reverse dns lookup