RAC DB -Querying other nodes

Provided one DB node in a cluster, how we can get the information (Host Name,Port Number) of other nodes in RAC? Is there some tables in each node which i can query ?

"user will provide the DB Conn Info (Host,Port,User,Pass,SID) of one node , a query will fetch the remaining nodes DB Conn Info. "
One thing not sure if your trying to deploy in your application you need not to worry which node is serving you and which node is down. you wiil have a load balencing TNS entry for your RAC environment which will take care of connection and retrieval of data.
I am just pasitng a sapmple TNS entry of 2 node rac. it may be help full for you
Service_name =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = HOST_NAME01-vip)(PORT = 1521))
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = HOST_NAME02-vip)(PORT = 1521))
(LOAD_BALANCE = yes)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = <SID)
Regards,
Anil Malkai

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