Finding a device with a certain IP

--Mike-- · 12 Mar 2008 at 09:26

Hi folks

Here at work there is a device on the network with an IP address that isn't from the DHCP pool ie. has been manually configured.

Is there a way to actually find out what this device is because I can't think what it would be.

Typing the IP into a browser brings up a 404 error, and telnet doesn't bring up anything either.

IPScan alerted me to it, but the hostname is just some squiggles!!

Any ideas? Cheers.

--Mike-- · 12 Mar 2008 at 09:51

bledd. said:
printer, server?

ping -a IP

that will resolve the name if it has one..

Didn't know about the -a command (never did a ping/? before), but it didn't resolve to name unfortunately. Thanks anyway.

--Mike-- · 12 Mar 2008 at 09:52

Visage said:
Shutdown all the machines.
Send a Wake packet to the IP in question
Look for the machine that's booted.

Might have to do that when I've got the network to myself. That or ping it -t and unplug fibre patch leads until it stops replying and track it down by location at least!!

--Mike-- · 13 Mar 2008 at 21:31

I think I've tracked it down to a Canon photocopier!!! I found nmap and it reported a Canon machine being the most likely device. Got to ping it -t and then unplug it.

Cheers for all your help - I've learned new things.

--Mike-- · 13 Mar 2008 at 21:59

ic1male said:
Lesson to be learned - keep a database of all your static IP addresses!

Yeah I know, I couldn't work out why it was on the 192.168.3.* range instead of the rest of our printers which are on 192.168.0.* -weird!