[Lazarus] Getting a remote hostname

[Richard Mace]

Thanks Sven


On 5 August 2013 20:10, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 05.08.2013 19:34, Richard Mace wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> What's the best/easiest/only was of getting a host name via an IP address?
>>
>> Effectively, i'd like to "ping" a number of ip addresses and see what
>> the host name is so that I can present the list to the user.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>
> Just in case: you are hopefully aware that one IP address can map to
> multiple host names?
>
> What you are looking for is called "reverse DNS lookup" and while I don't
> know much about it maybe the wiki article is a valuable starting point for
> a search: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Reverse_DNS_lookup<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup>
>
> Regards,
> Sven
>
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