How to Find the SMTP Host Name and Address of your ISP
The SYS_CONTEXT function is able to return the following host and IP address information for the current session: TERMINAL - An operating system identifier for the current session. This is often the client machine name. HOST - The host name of the client machine. IP_ADDRESS - The IP address of the client machine. You can also use 'host' command to find IP address associated with a hostname. Since a hostname can have multiple IP address, its better to use a DNS lookup utillity like host or nslookup. This way you will get all the IP address which that DNS name (hostname) is pointing. Commands like ping will only show one of the IP address mapped to the Dec 07, 2018 · The main difference between IP address and hostname is that IP address is a numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication while hostname is a label assigned to a network that sends the user to a specific website or a webpage. Nov 13, 2008 · HI, what is the command to find the host name with IP address. is possible to find the host name of other boxes( having their ip) from the same box (assuming telnet to other box is possible from this) | The UNIX and Linux Forums
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Unix command to find IP address from hostname - Linux You can also use 'host' command to find IP address associated with a hostname. Since a hostname can have multiple IP address, its better to use a DNS lookup utillity like host or nslookup. This way you will get all the IP address which that DNS name (hostname) is pointing. Commands like ping will only show one of the IP address mapped to the ORACLE-BASE - Identifying Host Names and IP Addresses
To get reverse DNS lookup working your will have to set up your nameserver / DNS-server in a way, that it is authoritative for 192.168.1.* and create zones / zonefiles with the DNS data (ip => hostname). I guess you are under the (false) impression, that a nameserver that knows "hostname => ip" magically knows "ip => hostname" either.
The question is a bit unclear, which resulted in the varying - and good - answers below. Do you want to find the DNS name of a host? Do you want to find the WINS name? Do you want to search the network for all hosts found? All of these questions are answered - but the specific answer desired is unknown. – Mei Sep 29 '14 at 19:08