how to find host name from IP with out login to the host

unix command-line hostname
user75536 picture user75536 · Mar 18, 2009 · Viewed 508.1k times · Source

i need to find the host name of a UNIX host whose IP is known with out login to that UNIX host

Answer

vartec picture vartec · Mar 18, 2009

Use nslookup

nslookup 208.77.188.166 
...
Non-authoritative answer:
166.188.77.208.in-addr.arpa     name = www.example.com.

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