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Re: how to get a list of all the hosts on the intranet around my workstation?

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Date 2011-07-17 02:52 +1000
Subject Re: how to get a list of all the hosts on the intranet around my workstation?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> pydhcplib? Shell to a DHCP utility? Ping every server in a range
> around my own?
>

I'd say there's several imperfect options, and no perfect ones.

1) DHCP, which hosts may or may not be using.
2) DNS - look up a list of the hosts within a (sub)domain.
3) Send out a broadcast ping and hope they all respond.

If you have full control, I would recommend the second. You could even
cheat by reading a file from /etc/bind or similar.

Depending on what you're trying to do, this could either be wholly
impractical, or an easy solution to an otherwise-difficult problem.

ChrisA

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how to get a list of all the hosts on the intranet around my workstation? Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> - 2011-07-16 09:31 -0700
  Re: how to get a list of all the hosts on the intranet around my workstation? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-17 02:52 +1000
  Re: how to get a list of all the hosts on the intranet around my workstation? Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2011-07-16 11:04 -0700
  Re: how to get a list of all the hosts on the intranet around my workstation? Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-07-16 20:15 +0200
  Re: how to get a list of all the hosts on the intranet around my workstation? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-17 04:19 +1000
  Re: how to get a list of all the hosts on the intranet around my workstation? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-17 04:27 +1000
  Re: how to get a list of all the hosts on the intranet around my workstation? Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> - 2011-07-16 21:59 +0200
  Re: how to get a list of all the hosts on the intranet around my workstation? Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak@hrivnak.org> - 2011-07-16 16:01 -0400

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