There is nmap which tries to guess the operating system plus some other things. If you are running those machines and want to found out how things are going, you might consider installing the snmp daemon on them and querying to from remote using the snmp tools.
Elizabeth "Kapil Khosla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Is there a program / utility in Linux to find out the information > of a remote host by telling its IP address. I am interested in > knowing the hostname, possibly location (server),of a remote machine > whose IP address is known to me, Thanks Kapil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]