Looks reminiscent of Office VBA (Like MS-Access, for example). Other than that, on MSDN, I was able to find API structures which does not seem to fit this question.

Shawn/Bryce.. PING Shawn.. PING Bryce..

Have I totally lost it?

HTH,

- Kent

If you have one of MS's programming suites installed, then you can do it, otherwise, you have to install a 3rd party api control.

we went over this stuff in this thread here.
http://kixtart.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=002284

your best bet would be to shell out and do a ping command and grab the information that way.

code:

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$ip = "208.169.161.27"
shell '%comspec% /c ping -a -n 1 -w 0 $ip | find /i "[$ip]" > %temp%\temp.txt'
$nul = open(1,"%temp%\temp.txt",2)
$data = readline(1)
$nul = close(1) del "%temp%\temp.txt"
$ipname = substr($data,9,instr($data,"[$ip]")-10)
? $ipname

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Bryce

The ping / parse is a good solution.

I'll knockup a simple name resolution executable if you think it would be usefull.

Ok, I've got a tiny (4k) executable which you can pass an IP address or hostname and it will return the IP address and FQDN.

If you still need this let me know and I will post instructions and a link that you can download the executable from.

If you are not keen on running the exe, I can let you have the source code and you can compile it up yourself.

PING -A returns the DNS name
NBTSTAT -A returns the WINS name

TCP applications like PING prefer to resolve names by DNS. MS networking commands prefer to get names by WINS/broacast and other NETBIOS functionality but each method will eventually use the others resolution if it's preferred mode fails, it'll just take a while to get there.

There are (from memory) about 8 different ways to resolve host names, the only difference between NBTSTAT and PING is the order that these methods are used.

Fo instance I've just pinged my NETBIOS name "RICHARD HOWARTH". Now, I know it is not a valid DNS name, not least because my IP address is DHCP assigned and there is a space in it, but after a short delay the PING command happily resolved the name and pinged away.

Your warning should therefore be something like:
PING -A returns the DNS name by preference. If there is no DNS name PING may return the NETBIOS name.
NBTSTAT -A returns the NETBIOS name by preference.

I'm unsure if it is possible for NBTSTAT to have an unresolved IP address in it's tables.