How to find out the name of a device on a local network by its IP on FreeBSD 10?

Question

linux

All good.
Well, a very simple question .. it’s embarrassing to ask, I googled - I didn’t find it ..
How can I find out by IP address what kind of device I have on the network now?
From Windows works ping -a xx.xx.xx.x
How similar to learn on FreeBSD 10.2 (is the gateway)?

Answer 1

nslookup xxxx or host xxxx
provided FreeBSD can see local DNS/WINS
As a last resort
nmap -O xxxx

Answer 2

By means of a ping, I think, in any way.
Ping is ICMP work, not address resolution.
Those. in Linux/Unix, a ping is just a ping, not something else.
In order to find out the device name, you need to use (for example) the host, dig, nslookup commands

Answer 3

If I understand your question correctly, then the name can be found using the good old DNS.
For example:
or
Of course, this will work only if, after connecting the device, you have registered in the reverse network zone xx.xx.xx.0 PTR a record about its IP address.

Answer 4

host xx.xx.xx.xx ?

Answer 5

In the top ten, drill is used instead of nslookup.
On the command host 192.168.1.37:
Host 37.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
arpscan seemed to help .. and something else, nb-something there ...
but again, some computers on xp do not sees .. does not see the tp-link router in LAN ..
I'll try nmap