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From: jason@hpcndjdz.CND.HP.COM (Jason Zions)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Confirming DNS name - what I really meant
Message-ID: <810028@hpcndjdz.CND.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Jun 91 21:52:04 GMT
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Organization: HP Colorado Networks Division
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If the system you're interested in has an SNMP daemon running, then

% snmpget w.x.y.z public system.sysName.0

will usually do the trick. "public" is the community name for the SNMP
agent; this is the sort-of default and will work unless the admin folks
deliberately changed the configured community name.

If no daemon is running, or the community name is wrong, the request will
time out.
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