August 29, 201312 yr A big issue for me is to try and find hostnames for other network devices. Here are few commands I run from my Ubuntu box that may help you out. First try the ever popular nslookup nslookup To find a hostname in your local network by IP address you can use: nmblookup -A To find a hostname on the internet you could use the host program: host Or you can try running: nbtscan One of my favorite DNS tools is dig dig -x dig -t ANY +noall +answer dig @your.dns.server
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