{"id":108,"date":"2011-05-26T16:55:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T00:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sibr.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2011-05-26T16:55:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T00:55:19","slug":"use-bonjour-name-to-connect-to-a-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sibr.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/26\/use-bonjour-name-to-connect-to-a-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Bonjour name to connect to a system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many servers and devices, especially those that are Mac OS based, use <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bonjour_(software)\">Bonjour<\/a> to broadcast their location. On a few occasions, I&#8217;ve known that a particular server or workstation was on the network, but not its address.<\/p>\n<p>This tip has two parts to it. The first part of this, and more commonly known, is how you can use a system&#8217;s computer (Bonjour) name to contact a system. You can see this for a file server if you go to the Finder&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT2645?viewlocale=en_US\">Network browse<\/a> folder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sibr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Network-Window.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sibr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Network-Window-300x68.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Network Window\" width=\"300\" height=\"68\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the example above, there is only one system broadcasting its availability, and showing its name as iMacIntel. From here, I could connect to the system if it was a file server or share its screen if screen sharing (AKA VNC) was enabled. But what if I want to connect via SSH or ping it. Since I know its Bonjour name, I can ping the system in the Terminal by adding .local as a suffix like so:<\/p>\n<p><code>ping imacintel.local<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Now that we know how to use a system&#8217;s name as a hostname, how do we find a system if it isn&#8217;t showing up in the network view? That will be in the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many servers and devices, especially those that are Mac OS based, use Bonjour to broadcast their location. On a few occasions, I&#8217;ve known that a particular server or workstation was on the network, but not its address. This tip has two parts to it. The first part of this, and more commonly known, is how &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sibr.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/26\/use-bonjour-name-to-connect-to-a-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Use Bonjour name to connect to a system&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sibr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sibr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sibr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sibr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sibr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sibr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sibr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sibr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sibr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}