Host name from IP address

[Michael Jewett]

I don't think I explained this properly.  I don't want to know the host 
name (DNS), I want know the name that Nagios knows it by, from the 
hosts.cfg file.

Any suggestions?

Michael

-------- Original Message  --------
From: "Ben Thomas" <bthomas at journalbroadcastgroup.com>
To: "Michael Jewett" <mgj at unb.ca>, nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re:[Nagios-users] Host name from IP address
Date: Fri Nov 03 2006 15:46:36 GMT-0400 (Atlantic Standard Time)

> So if you are not looking to write a script, just use ping -a <IP> in
> windows and that will reverse dns the IP for you.  Then just do a ctl +
> f in the config files.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Michael
> Jewett
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 8:46 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Host name from IP address
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> I was curious if anyone knows a way to find out the hostname from the
> hosts.cfg if I know the IP address.
> 
> For instance I have a program that I wrote that runs on switch 1 that
> returns me an IP address of switch 2 and its status.  I would then like
> the get the name from Nagios's configs for switch 2.  Is this possible,
> without going through the entire hosts.cfg file?  If not, has anyone
> else written something to do the similar function?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 
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