Hey guys, sorry I'm really new at this. I just had a thought to write a script that seems fairly simple, but it's hard for me. Basically what I want to do is be able to type a domain name, and have the script immediately ping the domain, and write the domain name and the resolved IP to a text file. If possible on top of that, I want to be able to set variables in the script that have certain IPs translate to certain names, which would also be written to the text file. So for instance, I open the command utility and type "yahoo.com". Can I get this script to ping yahoo and then create and write a new text file that would basically say, "yahoo.com - 64.58.79.230 - Yahoo Homepage" or something like that. Can you guys help me?

Yep. The only part I did not understand was: > If possible on top of that, I want to > be able to set variables in the script > that have certain IPs translate to > certain names, which would also be > written to the text file. What do you mean by that? You wanna do the way back, that is, identify DNS's by their IPs? Well, appart from the task discribed in that part of your post which I didn't understand, the following batch script will do the rest: @echo off :: Set file where to store the IPs below set LOG=C:\LogFile.txt set DNS= echo. echo Type domain names to identify, 'd' for defaults, 'q' when done: :input set INPUT= set /P INPUT= if "%INPUT%"=="" goto input if /i "%INPUT%"=="q" (     echo.     echo Identifying and logging IPs...     goto loop ) set DNS=%DNS% %INPUT% goto input :loop if "%DNS%"=="" goto end for /F "tokens=1* delims= " %%D in ("%DNS%") do (     set DNS=%%E     for /F "tokens=2 delims=[]" %%I in ('ping -n 1 %%D') do (         echo %%D - %%I>> %LOG%         goto loop     )     echo %%D - unable to determine>> %LOG% ) goto loop :end echo Process completed. BTW, if it's just to get the IPs based on the DNS's, we probably don't need to use PING. There's probably another command that will just identify, which will be faster than PING, which pings each DNS. However, I don't know which command to use. -- Leonardo Pignataro - Secret_Doom -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br ________________________________________________________________________

Wow, thanks so much. The other part that I was refering to would be for me to give a name to a certain IP within the script, so that when the script is logging the IP, it also gives it the preset name. For my yahoo example in the last paragraph in my first post, is is possible to put in the script that when a certain IP comes it (64.58.79.230) the script also translates it to a specific name? So it logs the domain name, and the IP, and then if say the IP is 64.58.79.230 then the script will also add a name I specify to go with that IP, like "Yahoo Homepage". Again, thanks for all your help.

Hey, the following line: echo Type domain names to identify, 'd' for defaults, 'q' when done: should actually be: echo Type domain names to identify, 'q' when done: Now, in response to your second post - hmmm I understand it now. You would like to have a list of preset names that would go with certain DNS names and their IP names to the log file, and that list would be on the source of the script. That can be done, but I thought of something that could be even better to you. That would be to have a prompt like the one on the script (the prompt which I stated to be wrong previously), which will log default IPs if you simply type 'd'. That way, you would have a list on the script with some domain names and their titles (preset names) which would be logged if you just typed 'd' (for Defaults) on the prompt. What do you think of this incrementation? Or do you rather stick with your first idea? -- Leonardo Pignataro - Secret_Doom -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br

Yeah that's basically the idea. One thing though, the script would most likely need to associate the preset names with IPs only. Basically, the list of domain names is huge, but they all reside on a smaller set number of servers. So the idea is the script will basically be able to tell what domains lie on which servers. So by typing domains, it resolves the IP, and then matches the IP to the preset name in the script and gives me the actual server name. I like your idea for the defaults. I'm not sure how many of the same domain names I will be repeatedly using, but it would be cool to have it in there just in case. Thanks agian man.

It's all clear now, Sullivan - so, we'll be using BOTH ideas, correct? Here we go: @echo off if "%1"=="GoTo" goto %2 %comspec% /v:on /c %0 GoTo start goto eof :: ================================================================= :: Common DNS/IP list - FOLLOW EXACT PREFIX PATTERN: :: - preset names - n;(ip);(name) - e.g.: n;0.0.0.0;Uknown Page :: - default dns's - d;(dns) - e.g.: d;1.1.1.1 :: The prefixes should begin at the very line begin. :: ================================================================= n;66.218.71.198;Yahoo Homepage n;209.51.137.90;AIDS.com Homepage d;computing.net d;yahoo.com d;google.com :: ================================================================= :start :: Set file where to store the IPs below set LOG=C:\LogFile.txt echo %0? |FIND /i ".bat?" > nul if not errorlevel=1 set THIS=%0 if errorlevel=1 set THIS=%0.BAT set DNS= echo. echo Type domain names to identify, 'd' for defaults, 'q' when done: :input set INPUT= set /P INPUT= if "%INPUT%"=="" goto input if /i "%INPUT%"=="q" (     echo.     echo Identifying and logging IPs...     goto loop ) if /i "%INPUT%"=="d" (     for /F "tokens=2 delims=;" %%A in ('FINDSTR "^d;" %THIS%') do (         set DNS=!DNS! %%A     ) ) else (     set DNS=%DNS% %INPUT% ) goto input :loop if "%DNS%"=="" (echo Process completed.&goto eof) for /F "tokens=1* delims= " %%D in ("%DNS%") do (     set DNS=%%E     for /F "tokens=2 delims=[]" %%I in ('ping -n 1 %%D') do (         for /F "tokens=3 delims=;" %%N in ('FINDSTR "^n;%%I;" %THIS%') do (             echo %%D - %%I - %%N>> %LOG%             goto loop         )         echo %%D - %%I>> %LOG%         goto loop     )     echo %%D - unable to determine>> %LOG% ) goto loop :eof Tell me if it worked as intended. -- Leonardo Pignataro - Secret_Doom -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br _______________________________________________________________________________

Wow, it works great. You're the best man! I also had another question, and I know it's really superfluous, and more of a curiosity thing, but I was wondering, what would be involved in the possibility of having the script also sort all of the preset names by alphabetical order in the final log? Is that even possible? Like I said, just a curiousity thing, you've already helped me out tons!