Host Name

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Patrick

with just an IP, I try to ping a host to find out the host name. the
name is coming up unknown. is there another way to acquire the host
name with just the IP?
 
Patrick said:
with just an IP, I try to ping a host to find out the host name. the
name is coming up unknown. is there another way to acquire the host
name with just the IP?

are you doing a
ping -a x.x.x.x
?
 
yes, it came back with

Pinging 10.131.200.14 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 10.131.200.14: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=247
Reply from 10.131.200.14: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=247
Reply from 10.131.200.14: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=247
Reply from 10.131.200.14: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=247

no host data. Any other way I might find out the host name?
 
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