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I somewhat regularly have to log in to a WiFi connected machine (they vary, so DHCP assigned addresses would be a PITA to juggle and remember). I have a static IP macOS box I can ssh or Screen Share into, and from there I’ve usually danced a jig of
arp -a or
last to try to find the IP address of that box, so I can connect to it directly. Apple’s
Bonjour [née Rendezvous, an implementation of
zeroconf] shows the machines, since they’re Macs, but the command line tools for that aren’t part of my muscle memory.
dns-sd -Gv4v6 doesn’t really roll off the tongue...
I was today years old when I realized if I just append .local to the machine name, good ol’ ping will give me the address:
% ping -c1 BigMac.local
PING BigMac.local (172.16.345.99): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.16.345.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.785 ms
I’m a maroon.
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