Linux "ping -a " analogue

[Milen Dimitrov]

Yes,
this is exactly what I was looking for!

Thank you very much!

It seems that this tool is part of Samba and Samba has to be installed ...



Rigler, Steve wrote:

>Assuming your PC's are using WINS, you could try nmblookup:
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>nmblookup -A <ipaddr>
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>-Steve 
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>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Milen Dimitrov
>Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 1:06 PM
>To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: Linux "ping -a " analogue
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>All machines in the LAN use DHCP.
>Do I still need to put the IP/names in /etc/hosts?
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>Are there any other options?
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>>The only way to do that is to put the names and ip addresses of the
>>machines in your lan in your /etc/hosts file.  There is no other way to
>>do it.
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>>Ryan Golhar
>>Computational Biologist
>>The Informatics Institute at
>>The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ
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>>Phone: 973-972-5034
>>Fax: 973-972-7412
>>Email: golharam at umdnj.edu
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Milen Dimitrov [mailto:milend at ansco.com] 
>>Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 12:49 PM
>>To: golharam at umdnj.edu
>>Subject: Re: Linux "ping -a " analogue
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>>I tried "nslookup 192.168.0.1" but it didn't work.
>>It works fine for public IP addresse but it doesn't work for the
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>>Is there any other command/tool I can use to resolve IP addresses into 
>>names for PCs in my LAN????
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>>Ryan Golhar wrote:
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>>>I think the Windows version uses NETBIOS to resolve names that don't 
>>>have a DNS entry.
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>>>Use nslookup.  That will return the name as registered with a DNS 
>>>server.  It won't use NETBIOS so private IP address probably won't be 
>>>resolved unless its in your /etc/hosts files.
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>>>Ryan
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>>>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Milen Dimitrov
>>>Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 11:56 AM
>>>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>>Subject: Linux "ping -a " analogue
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>>>Hi gurus,
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>>>Windows' command "ping -a 192.168.0.1" will resolve the IP address
>>>192.168.0.1 into to a name if possible.
>>>What is the linux analogue of this command?
>>>Linux ping command doesn't seem to be able to do that...
>>>Any ideas?
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>>>C:\>ping -a 192.168.0.1
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>>>Pinging MYNEWPC [192.168.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:
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>>>Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
>>>Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
>>>Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
>>>Reply from 192.168.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
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>>>Ping statistics for 192.168.0.1:
>>>  Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate 
>>>round trip times in milli-seconds:
>>>  Minimum = 0ms, Maximum =  0ms, Average =  0ms 
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