We recently had to determine is a particular computer was up on the network. Using the command “arp -a” gaves us all the IPs being used on the network. Next was to ping the ip to resolve the name. We used the following command which didn’t work.

“ping 192.168.0.122 -a”

This pinged the machine and told us it was up; however, we needed the machine name. The next command gave us the computer name.

“ping -a 192.168.0.122”

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