How to get hostname from IP (Linux)?

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

To find a hostname in your local network by IP address you can use:

nmblookup -A <ip>

To find a hostname on the internet you could use the host program:

host <ip>

Or you can install nbtscan by running:

sudo apt-get install nbtscan

And use:

nbtscan <ip>

*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 <IP>
nslookup <hostname>

Answer 3

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 "[password]" ssh [username@ip] uname -n