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Hi,

I have a servers IP address - what is the best way to get the physical host? Is is ypcat host | grep ipaddress?

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Try host ipaddress.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
IBM Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
 
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Hi,

I get
host: command not found

I am on solaris 8

Thanks,
Jo
 
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arp 'hostname'
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when they don't ask you anymore, where they are come from, and they don't tell you anymore, where they go ... you'r getting older !
 
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