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Find IP of a device on a local network - mrburnzie - Jan-06-2017
Hello!
I'm working on a project for which I need to get a devices IP, but I know the host name aka. ID.
What kind of module should I use for this, I've tried socket but I couldn't figure it out, any help?
Thanks!
RE: Find IP of a device on a local network - Larz60+ - Jan-06-2017
Read the docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html
RE: Find IP of a device on a local network - wavic - Jan-07-2017
Hello!
I don't know how to do it with socket module. Yet
In [1]: import netifaces
In [2]: netifaces.ifaddresses('wlp9s0')
Out[2]:
{2: [{'addr': '192.168.100.3',
'broadcast': '192.168.100.255',
'netmask': '255.255.255.0'}],
10: [{'addr': 'fe80::8558:4664:f9bb:a914%wlp9s0',
'netmask': 'ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::/64'}],
17: [{'addr': '68:17:29:8b:ea:98', 'broadcast': 'ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff'}]}May be socket.gethostbyname_ex('host_name') is what you want
RE: Find IP of a device on a local network - Larz60+ - Jan-07-2017
From soshan on stackoverflow
>>> import socket
>>> def get_ips_for_host(host):
try:
ips = socket.gethostbyname_ex(host)
except socket.gaierror:
ips=[]
return ips
>>> ips = get_ips_for_host('www.google.com')
>>> print(repr(ips))
('www.l.google.com', [], ['74.125.77.104', '74.125.77.147', '74.125.77.99'])
RE: Find IP of a device on a local network - Ofnuts - Jan-08-2017
(Jan-06-2017, 05:15 PM)mrburnzie Wrote: Hello!The hostname is "local" to the device. In a pure IP network you would have to register that name/address pair on a DNS server, on in the /etc/hosts file (Windows/Systems32/Drivers/etc/hosts on a windows system). Once you have done that the usual TCP/IP name resolution APIs will work.
I'm working on a project for which I need to get a devices IP, but I know the host name aka. ID.
What kind of module should I use for this, I've tried socket but I couldn't figure it out, any help?
Thanks!
If all involved machines also implement the NETBIOS protocol, there is a way to retrieve the IP adress from the NETBIOS name (WinDNS?).
Otherwise if you are using a specific port, you can iterate all the local network address until you connect...