On Linux, if you have no DNS, you can use /etc/hosts I do not know if there is a Windows equivalent.
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rainer Wiesenfarth" <rainer_wiesenfa...@trimble.com> To: interest@qt-project.org Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 6:17:27 AM Subject: Re: [Interest] Getting a hostname given the IP Address Am 24.10.2012 09:29, schrieb Joseph W Joshua: > The computers in question are in a locked network that does not have > Internet access. I will try 8.8.8.8 and get back to you. > > But all computers in the local networks, 192.168.0.xxx and > 10.20.21.xxx respond with the IP address and not the hostname. Do you have a proper DNS set up? Is "nslookup 192.168.0.xxx" (Windows) or "host 192.168.0.xxx" (Linux) able to resolve the address? Best Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Rainer Wiesenfarth -- Tel.: +49 (0)711 22 88-10 * Fax: +49 (0)711 22 88-111 Web: http://www.trimble.com/geospatial/ * http://www.inpho.de/ Trimble Germany GmbH * Branch office Stuttgart Rotebühlstraße 81 * 70178 Stuttgart * Germany Commercial register: HRB 83893, Darmstadt Managing Directors: Dr. Frank Heimberg, Hans-Jürgen Gebauer _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest