[Interest] Getting a hostname given the IP Address

[Joseph W Joshua]

On Oct 24, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

> On quarta-feira, 24 de outubro de 2012 05.38.03, Joseph W Joshua wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I am writing an application for our company, and at one point I need to get
>> the hostname of a computer on the network given the IP address. If I use
>> QHostInfo::lookupHost() connected to a lookup slot, and provided with the
>> IP address, it returns the same IP address.
> 
> in the QHostInfo that you receive in your slot, the hostName() returns the IP 
> address in string form?
> 
> For every hostname you've tried? Try 8.8.8.8 for example.
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> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
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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.