How to get hostname from IP Linux

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I d like to get remote machine hostname through IP Address   I found lots of answer such as nslookup  host  resloveip  etc   but I still can t get hostname from my target machine cent OS  ubuntu etc     It seems need to register to DNS server   I have a machine named test and using IP 10 1 27 97  but I used the method above still can t not get  test   Does anyone can help me to get the hostname form IP Address

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In order to use nslookup  host or gethostbyname   then the target s name will need to be registered with DNS or statically defined in the hosts file on the machine running your program  Yes  you could connect to the target with SSH or some other application and query it directly  but for a generic solution you ll need some sort of DNS entry for it

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Another simple way I found for using in LAN is ssh  username ip  uname -n  If you need to login command line will be sshpass -p  quot  password  quot  ssh  username ip  uname -n

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To find a hostname in your local network by IP address you can use   nmblookup -A  lt ip gt    To find a hostname on the internet you could use the host program   host  lt ip gt    Or you can install nbtscan by running   sudo apt-get install nbtscan   And use   nbtscan  lt ip gt     Taken from https   askubuntu com questions 205063 command-to-get-the-hostname-of-remote-server-using-ip-address 205067 205067  Update 2018-05-13  You can query a name server with nslookup  It works both ways   nslookup  lt IP gt  nslookup  lt hostname gt

[linux] How to get hostname from IP (Linux)?

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