Re: Getting NetBIOS Names

1998-03-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Kevin, Funny you should mention this. I looked at this problem--let me phrase it as 'how do I find the "NetBIOS name of a machine give its IP'--and didn't get to the solution. However, here's what I found. The NetBT protocol for looking up names uses the same packet format as DNS, but uses diff

Getting NetBIOS Names

1998-03-06 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm working on a custom PERL script here to do some reporting on Internet usage, etc. However, I'm running into a minor problem. I can monitor Internet usage by IP address; however, we're using DHCP here and IP addresses might change for the systems on my internal net. The other issue is that a