[X-Unix] Rendezvous lookup from command-line

[William H. Magill]

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On 17 Sep, 2004, at 15:12, Brooks Graham wrote:
> Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I can ssh into any of 
> my OSX boxes by appending ".local" to the host name.
>
> For example, I have a host named "mondo" and at the shell prompt, I 
> can just type "ssh mondo.local"
>
> On Sep 17, 2004, at 8:46 AM, Stephen Jonke wrote:
>> I'm talking about when I have ssh'd into a remote machine on a remote 
>> network

>>> On 9/17/04 4:56 PM, "Stephen Jonke" <sjj_public at mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is it possible to query Rendezvous to find ssh (or other serve) 
>>>> servers
>>>> via the command-line? I have one system that has a fixed IP, but the
>>>> other systems have dynamically assigned IPs. I would like to be 
>>>> able to
>>>> SSH into the fixed IP machine, then hop to other machines utilizing
>>>> Rendezvous.

By definition Rendezvous addresses are visible only on the local 
segment. They are not routed (and not visible through NAT).

You can ssh into your static host from a remote system, and then from 
that static system use the <hostname>.local convention to connect to 
the other machines on your network.

The "<hostname>.local" naming convention is defined on the sharing 
preferences panel.

Obviously, this only works for OSX at this time, as nobody else except 
a couple of printers supports Rendezvous.


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