I have a Unix/Linux machine aster-star-98 in our company but it's on a different network.
How can I get the IP address of that machine?
If I could enter the complete address of the machine and ping it I might get the IP address, but I don't know the complete address, only the simple name aster-star-98. I'm sure that it's running.
5 Answers
Query the local name-service. For example:
nslookup aster-star-98.example.com
host aster-star-98.example.com
dig aster-star-98.example.comtelnet or ssh to aster-star-98.example.com then
ifconfig -aIf you don't know the fully qualified domain name and have no way to open a session then you'll have to visit the computer or enlist the help of someone near the computer.
0If you run ping aster-star-98, you should see the real IP.
Check the mac address of the network adapter then ping the broadcast address of the subnet (from within said subnet). broadcast address on /24 is .255, then run arp -a from the windows machine and find the mac address.
$ ip addressSample Output:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000 link/ether b8:88:e3:95:eb:c0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 20:68:9d:f1:66:88 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet ***192.168.12.182***/24 brd 192.168.12.255 scope global wlan0 inet6 fe80::2268:9dff:fef1:6688/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft foreverAlso try host aster-star-98 which might give that ip.
