How to find out the IP or machine full name in your network  

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

How to find out the machine IP or full address name that reside in your network?

Answer: Use 'traceroute' command in unix

For eg: You wanted to find a machine call "walrus" in your network

: /home/LX>traceroute walrus
traceroute to walrus.kl.lxcorp.com (10.101.110.74), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 walrus.kl.lxcorp.com (10.101.110.74) 1.168 ms 0.373 ms 0.230 ms

machine IP: 10.101.110.74
machine name: walrus.kl.lxcorp.com

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