landiscover

README

landiscover

About this fork

This fork was created by me (@moqmar) after https://github.com/aler9/landiscover was deprecated on March 3rd 2025. This is for now mostly a maintenance-only fork, primarily because I just want to keep using the tool myself.

I will look into Pull Requests also for smaller features and might merge them, but my time is quite limited so don't worry if it takes a couple of weeks to respond.

Info

Landiscover is a command-line tool that allows to discover devices and services available in the local network.

Features:

• Discover devices and services within seconds
• Available for Linux, no external dependencies

This software combines multiple discovery techniques:

• Arping is used to find machines
• DNS protocol is used to find hostnames
• Multicast DNS (MDNS) is used to find machines and hostnames
• NetBIOS protocol is used to find machines and hostnames

Installation and usage

Install and run with Docker:

docker run --rm -it --network=host -e COLUMNS=$COLUMNS moqmar/landiscover

Alternatively, you can download and run a precompiled binary from the release page.

Full command-line usage

usage: landiscover [<flags>] [<interface>]

landiscover v0.0.0

Machine and service discovery tool.

Flags:
  --help     Show context-sensitive help (also try --help-long and --help-man).
  --passive  do not send any packet

Args:
  [<interface>]  Interface to listen to

Documentation

Overview

main executable.