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CommandLine IP to hostname

For a batch file I am writing I need a command Line utility which converts an IP address into a hostname. Superscan does this for me but with a GUI. I've tried NBSTAT but this relies on NetBios and I've also tried hostname from sysinternals but thisalso fails.
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Peter

This is a rough approach, but:

PING

will also try to resolve the address into the DNS name. The specific format will be something like:

PING ()

so perhaps your script can try yo parse out the name?

Like I said, rough...

Sorry should have mentioned that it's for an internal network with no DNS or netbios, just the computer browser service. If superscan can perform this lookup I figure a commandLine utility can.
Peter

ping -a IP address

Mike

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ping -a IP address

Mike

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Try "nslookup "

If there is a dns server you want to specify use "nslookup "

In either case you'll have to extract the name from the response.

Look at these links:

"...converts the IP address to hostname..."

http://www.pix.net/staff/djm/sw/fastresolve/man/convert-ip-db.html

"convert IP address to hostname"

http://www.webattack.com/get/bbdns.shtml

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml

http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/dns.html

(REMOVE SPACES from pasted URLs.)

Good luck,

Maxwell

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