[Tfug] LAN hostnames

Paul Scott tfug@tfug.org
Tue Sep 17 08:18:27 2002


Tony wrote:
> 
> This might not be exactly what you were looking for, but you could run 
> something like the following then extract the pertinent information with 
> a little C++ app which would append the IP and hostname to your 
> /etc/hosts file.
> 
> ~
> Wazzup? nmap -sP 10.0.0.* -oM outputfile.txt


joy:/etc/bind# nmap -sP 192.168.0.*

Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Host   (192.168.0.0) seems to be a subnet broadcast address (returned 1 
extra pings).
Host actiontec (192.168.0.1) appears to be up.
Host  (192.168.0.2) appears to be up.
Host  (192.168.0.3) appears to be up.
Host   (192.168.0.255) seems to be a subnet broadcast address (returned 
2 extra pings). Note -- the actual IP also responded.
Nmap run completed -- 256 IP addresses (4 hosts up) scanned in 7 seconds


How does that help?

Thanks,

Paul