Method queryName

pager_lib/nmb/NetBIOS.py:39–60

Send a query on the network and hopes that if machine matching the *name* will reply with its IP address. :param string ip: If the NBNSProtocol instance was instianted with broadcast=True, then this parameter can be an empty string. We will leave it to the OS to determine an approp

(self, name, ip = '', port = 137, timeout = 30)

        self.sock.sendto(data, ( ip, port ))

    def queryName(self, name, ip = '', port = 137, timeout = 30):
        """
        Send a query on the network and hopes that if machine matching the *name* will reply with its IP address.

        :param string ip: If the NBNSProtocol instance was instianted with broadcast=True, then this parameter can be an empty string. We will leave it to the OS to determine an appropriate broadcast address.
                          If the NBNSProtocol instance was instianted with broadcast=False, then you should provide a target IP to send the query.
        :param integer port: The NetBIOS-NS port (IANA standard defines this port to be 137). You should not touch this parameter unless you know what you are doing.
        :param integer/float timeout: Number of seconds to wait for a reply, after which the method will return None
        :return: A list of IP addresses in dotted notation (aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd). On timeout, returns None.
        """
        assert self.sock, 'Socket is already closed'

        trn_id = random.randint(1, 0xFFFF)
        data = self.prepareNameQuery(trn_id, name)
        if self.broadcast and not ip:
            ip = '<broadcast>'
        elif not ip:
            self.log.warning('queryName: ip parameter is empty. OS might not transmit this query to the network')

        self.write(data, ip, port)

        return self._pollForNetBIOSPacket(trn_id, timeout)

    def queryIPForName(self, ip, port = 137, timeout = 30):
        """