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How to find out one of the host of ip adresses?

phanichintha
Path Finder

what is the command to find out one of the host name of Ip adress.

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FrankVl
Ultra Champion

Splunk has a built in 'external lookup' called dnslookup that you can use (assuming the address you want to lookup is in a field called ipAddress): | lookup dnslookup clientip as ipAddress

See also: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Knowledge/DefineanexternallookupinSplunkWeb#Exte...

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jawaharas
Motivator
  1. Install the 'dnslookup' app - https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1535/
  2. Get host name of ip using below command

| dnslookup reverse ip host

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FrankVl
Ultra Champion

No need to install a 6y old app for that. This functionality is built in nowadays 🙂

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jawaharas
Motivator

Thanks. This also works.

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