How to find a hostname via public IP address? In order to find the hostname of a computer with a public IP address, you have to pass the address to the Domain Name System (DNS) server. Here are the ...

I have a CentOS VM running in VMWare player. The host is Windows Server 2008 R2. The hostname is rianjswiki. The FQDN is rianjswiki.<company>.net. The wiki is accessible via browser both via the short ...

The function takes a hostname and returns a pointer to a statically allocated hostent struct. Since each call to gethostbyname () will overwrite it, you should copy the returned struct to a private ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: This Java tip demonstrates a method of determining the hostname of an IP address. Developer may use this code in applications which displays host name on their user interface. Note ...

I'm trying to figure out why I can't ping several machines by name. The nameservers in the following example, are running Windows 2008 R2. The nfs servers are running Ubuntu Karmic. NFS1 and NFS2 are ...

Ever wanted to just plug something in and conveniently read the hostname and IP addresses of a headless board like a Raspberry Pi? Chances are, a free USB port is more accessible than digging up a ...

The bash script described here can change Linux systems' IP addresses from dynamic to static with much less manual work. Changing the IP address of a Linux system from dynamic to static is not ...