Get Hostname from IP address?

wpspeedster · Jan 23, 2017

Can I find the hostname of any web hosting companies or websites when knowing their IP address? Is there a way that using a command line tool which gets an IP address and returns the host name, for Linux or Windows?

AlbaHost · Jan 23, 2017

wpspeedster said:
Can I find the hostname of any web hosting companies or websites when knowing their IP address? Is there a way that using a command line tool which gets an IP address and returns the host name, for Linux or Windows?

Any reason about why would you need to know hostname of hosting companies?

HyperFilter · Jan 23, 2017

If there's a rDNS configured for it, you'll get it by doing : nslookup target_ip

wpspeedster · Jan 27, 2017

AlbaHost said:
Any reason about why would you need to know hostname of hosting companies?

I am just curious and want to know how hosting providers set their hostname.

HyperFilter said:
If there's a rDNS configured for it, you'll get it by doing : nslookup target_ip

Great! I can see my hostname

I tried to nslookup your IP address from your domain on your signature

Code:

[root@server ~]# nslookup 185.30.165.15
Server:         213.186.33.99
Address:        213.186.33.99#53

Non-authoritative answer:
15.165.30.185.in-addr.arpa      name = hyperfilter.com.

Authoritative answers can be found from:
165.30.185.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns2.hyperfilter.com.
165.30.185.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns1.hyperfilter.com.

But hyperfilter.com is your hostname? why you could set your hostname as your domain? is it possible?

24x7CSM · Jan 29, 2017

A server hostname should be a FQDN. A Fully Qualified Domain Name. Hostname is the identity of the server and used for many services ( mostly shared hosting ). The general practice to set the hostname is .. if you have a domain registered abc.com you should set the hostname as server.abc.com or mybox.abc.com or myserver.abc.com making sure to add an A record of the hostname in order to resolve that hostname.

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