On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 17:55 -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> How would you determine the "computer name"? Particularly, for static
> IP addresses.

Reverse DNS would work fine for me. All of my servers and PCs resolve in
both directions. If yours don't, consider dnsmasq, or configure dhcpd
and bind to talk to each other.

> And if you found a new IP address, how would you make sure that it is
> not an existing machine that had previously been under another ip
> address.

Same, with DNS. In fact, instead of scanning I'd just do a reverse-DNS
scan of the local subnet. Anything that returns a non-generic answer
gets added.

Regards,
Tyler



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