Why nmap is showing ip address in output, instead of Domain name of remote host?
Issue
While executing nmap to scan remote host, nmap reply shows ip address of the remote host instead of it's Domain name.
Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2015-11-18 13:25 IST
Nmap scan report for 192.168.2.1 <<
Host is up (0.00061s latency).
Not shown: 992 closed ports
- Expected output,
Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2015-11-18 13:27 IST
Nmap scan report for www.example.com <<
Host is up (0.00061s latency).
Not shown: 992 closed ports
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- nmap-5.51-4.el6.x86_64
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