There may be times when you have the IP-address of a machine on the local network, but not the user friendly machine name. In this scenario, debugging which machine logged an error message can be difficult. Fortunately, on Windows machines at least, a reverse lookup should be relatively simple on the command line.
Within a Windows domain environment the following command, executed within a command prompt, will return the NetBIOS name of the machine associated with a particular IP-address:
nbtstat -A ip-address-to-matchCode language: plaintext (plaintext)For example:
nbtstat -A 192.168.1.88Code language: plaintext (plaintext)