Comments on: Find your IP Address on a Mac

By: Enable Remote Login to Start SSH Server in Mac OS X

Enable Remote Login to Start SSH Server in Mac OS X — Mon, 13 May 2013 22:51:21 +0000

[...] Get the Macs IP address – Go to “System Preferences” and “Network” to retrieve the IP [...]

By: Perform Network Scanning & Analysis from iOS with Fing

Perform Network Scanning & Analysis from iOS with Fing — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:09:53 +0000

[...] troubleshoot devices, and anyone who’s had to dig around in the System Preferences to find Mac IP and MAC addresses on multiple machines, or in Network Settings on a bunch of iPhone, iPad, or Apple [...]

By: Remote Control a Mac with Screen Sharing in OS X

Remote Control a Mac with Screen Sharing in OS X — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:52:02 +0000

[...] a note of the Macs IP address, that is what you will be connecting [...]

By: Claudia

Claudia — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:29:49 +0000

I think that the problem is that ianf isn’t a native speaker of English. I certainly understood the intent of the article, though some of it is still not clearly written after two plus years of scrutiny.

By: Joaquin Palacios

Joaquin Palacios — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:08:22 +0000

Thanks to you and not the 1st person who posted I could configure my internet.

By: greno

greno — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:18:25 +0000

Where’s ‘hostname -i’ like on linux when you need it?

By: Find a MAC Address in Mac OS X

Find a MAC Address in Mac OS X — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:18:13 +0000

[...] that is assigned to each physical network interface on a computer. Different than a computers IP address, MAC addresses are frequently used for network access control and to monitor network connectivity, [...]

By: Access US Only Websites from Outside the USA with a SOCKS Proxy & SSH Tunnel

Access US Only Websites from Outside the USA with a SOCKS Proxy & SSH Tunnel — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:33:57 +0000

[...] launch a web browser and double-check the external IP address to confirm with a website like whatismyip.org or by running the following at the command [...]

By: Find a Router IP Address in Mac OS X

Find a Router IP Address in Mac OS X — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:27:53 +0000

[...] a routers IP address is by going through System Preferences. This is much the same way that you get your Macs IP address, but the router IP is a few steps further in preference [...]

By: Find a Routers IP Address in Mac OS X

Find a Routers IP Address in Mac OS X — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:45:36 +0000

[...] clarify here, the routers IP and your own IP address are different things. Being the start of a network, the access point typically holds the very first [...]

By: Share Files from Mac OS X to Windows PC’s Easily

Share Files from Mac OS X to Windows PC’s Easily — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:25:03 +0000

[...] SMB enabled, we now can connect from the Windows PC to the Mac. If you already know the Macs IP address you can skip this first part of this and go directly to the Windows PC to access the shared users [...]

By: Show your IP Address in the Menu Bar

Show your IP Address in the Menu Bar — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:25:54 +0000

[...] can always find your IP address in Mac OS X through System Preferences, using the command line, or accessing a web site like [...]

By: David

David — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:30:02 +0000

@ianf

The purpose of the article is to inform Mac users how to find their IP addresses. You often need to know what a local IP is for local file and print sharing (particularly true with a Windows & Mac OS X network), but the article covers finding both local and external IP addresses.

Perhaps you missed the last part of the article which discusses using curl to find an external IP address.

If you have any suggestions on clarifying the article, feel free to submit them to: osxdailycom@gmail.com

By: Chowder Powder

Chowder Powder — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:44:23 +0000

You don’t know the difference between a local and external IP? Obviously the IP on a LAN is different.

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:03:54 +0000

Since ianf is so concerned about misinformation,

it should be noted that the address 192.168.0.0 is NOT ALWAYS the main node. It is certainly possible to be limited to fewer than 254 other addresses, or far, far more addresses. And IP addresses are not necessarily assigned “in turn” (though they usually are).