I ssh into the machines on my network using hostname.local. I've forgotten the hostname for one of the machines. Is there a command I can issue from one machine that will broadcast a request for and display all the hostnames for the machines on my lan?
nbtscanA good tool to scan all hostnames on a network is nbtscan.
$ nbtscan 192.168.1.0/24
Doing NBT name scan for addresses from 192.168.1.0/24
IP address NetBIOS Name Server User MAC address
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192.168.1.0 Sendto failed: Permission denied
192.168.1.162 CLEMENTINA <server> CLEMENTINA 00:00:00:00:00:00
192.168.1.205 CLEMENTINA <server> CLEMENTINA 00:00:00:00:00:00
192.168.1.255 Sendto failed: Permission denied
You can install it in the Software Center by searching for 'nbtscan', through their website, or via Terminal:
sudo apt-get install nbtscan
