How to find a hostname via public IP address? In order to find the hostname of a computer with a public IP address, you have to pass the address to the Domain Name System (DNS) server. Here are the ...

I have a CentOS VM running in VMWare player. The host is Windows Server 2008 R2. The hostname is rianjswiki. The FQDN is rianjswiki.<company>.net. The wiki is accessible via browser both via the short ...

I'm trying to figure out why I can't ping several machines by name. The nameservers in the following example, are running Windows 2008 R2. The nfs servers are running Ubuntu Karmic. NFS1 and NFS2 are ...

IP address tracking has always been depicted as the ultimate tool for tracking movie locations. There is always a geek who punches in the numbers and gets the device’s exact location. In reality, IP ...

Many companies and organizations host an FTP site, a mail server, and a Web server on the same machine. In such cases, the hostnames ftp.ripoff.org, mail.ripoff.org, and www.ripoff.org are usually ...

Ever wanted to just plug something in and conveniently read the hostname and IP addresses of a headless board like a Raspberry Pi? Chances are, a free USB port is more accessible than digging up a ...

The bash script described here can change Linux systems' IP addresses from dynamic to static with much less manual work. Changing the IP address of a Linux system from dynamic to static is not ...

Some Raspberry Pi projects aren't paired with a display and input accessories (a.ka. operating headless), and for good reason. First, the more peripherals you connect to the Pi, the more current it ...