David Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I have inhereted a network with lots ms machines not in dns (there was no
> dns). I am looking for a tool which will do the same thing as ms ping
> -a. What this does is return the name for the ip address in dns or the
> configured name on the box if no dns name.
>
> i.e. ping -a 10.1.1.1
> will return
> ping ms-server with ...
I wouldn't bank on it...what you're looking at is a flag to resolve WINS/SMB
machine names. I don't believe there to be any WINS/SMB reverse resolution in
the standard GNU/*nix network tools.
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