On 23 Aug 2006 21:46:21 -0700, damacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, sandra. > > no, it's not as complicated as that. all i want to do is to load a > database onto different machines residing in the same network. i hope > there is a way doing it. or perhaps i have a poor understanding of how > networks work. >
I expect that you would know the IP range for your network. Then you can simply 'ping' each IP in the range to find wether its alive. Moreover by your description I guess you would actually want to find all machines in your network that run a particular network service, to allow you to "distribute the database". In such case you can use "nmap" with -p option, to find all the machines which are listening on the particular port. hth, amit. ---- Amit Khemka -- onyomo.com Home Page: www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~csd00377 Endless the world's turn, endless the sun's Spinning, Endless the quest; I turn again, back to my own beginning, And here, find rest. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list