Thanks Sven
On 5 August 2013 20:10, Sven Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05.08.2013 19:34, Richard Mace wrote: > >> Hi, >> What's the best/easiest/only was of getting a host name via an IP address? >> >> Effectively, i'd like to "ping" a number of ip addresses and see what >> the host name is so that I can present the list to the user. >> >> Thanks in advance >> > > Just in case: you are hopefully aware that one IP address can map to > multiple host names? > > What you are looking for is called "reverse DNS lookup" and while I don't > know much about it maybe the wiki article is a valuable starting point for > a search: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Reverse_DNS_lookup<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup> > > Regards, > Sven > > -- > ______________________________**_________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected].**freepascal.org<[email protected]> > http://lists.lazarus.**freepascal.org/mailman/**listinfo/lazarus<http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus> >
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