all ip addresses of machines in the local network

[Amit Khemka]

On 23 Aug 2006 21:46:21 -0700, damacy <wegein at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, sandra.
>
> no, it's not as complicated as that. all i want to do is to load a
> database onto different machines residing in the same network. i hope
> there is a way doing it. or perhaps i have a poor understanding of how
> networks work.
>

I expect that you would know the IP range for your network. Then you
can simply 'ping' each IP in the range to find wether its alive.
Moreover by your description I guess you would actually want to find
all machines in your network that run a particular network service, to
allow you to "distribute the database". In such case you can use
"nmap" with -p option, to find all the machines which are listening on
the particular port.

hth,
amit.


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