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.
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
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.
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