http://typo.pburkholder.com/articles/2008/01/02/looking-up-ips-with-mdns-and-dns-sd-on-mac-os-x-10-4 en-us 40 ... <p>I forgot the IP address of my printer on my local area network at home.</p> <p>And my Mac quite cleverly only had the mdns name in the DeviceURI, but for setting up an older Windows system I really wanted the IP. Here&#8217;s how:</p> <ul> <li>Browse for printers: <code>dns-sd -B _printers._tcp</code> .. :<pre><code> Timestamp A/R Flags if Domain Service Type Instance Name 21:56:43.972 Add 2 7 local. _printer._tcp. Brother HL-2070N series</code></pre></li> <li>Lookup the service info for the printer you&#8217;ve found: <code> dns-sd -L "Brother HL-2070N series" _printer._tcp</code>:<pre><code> 21:58:30.695 Brother\032HL-2070N\032series._printer._tcp.local. can be reached at BRN-7E6301.local.:515 ...</code></pre></li> <li>Query on the domain name: <code>dns-sd -Q BRN-7E6301.local.</code>:<pre><code> Timestamp A/R Flags if Name T C Rdata 21:59:52.553 Add 2 7 BRN-7E6301.local. 1 1 192.168.15.103</code></pre></li> </ul> <p>The reason to bother documenting this? Because the Mac Os X man page for <code>dns-sd</code> doesn&#8217;t document the use of the -Q switch.</p> <p>Grrrrrrrrr.</p> Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:54:00 -0800 urn:uuid:7971475d-4ecb-4b8b-823e-1d85dc8b847b Peter Burkholder http://typo.pburkholder.com/articles/2008/01/02/looking-up-ips-with-mdns-and-dns-sd-on-mac-os-x-10-4 System Administration macosx urls to the latest world news. <a href="http://rssnewsdigest.com" rel="nofollow">http://rssnewsdigest.com</a> Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:28:20 -0700 urn:uuid:486d7ca5-cd91-467a-992e-a081457ce365 http://typo.pburkholder.com/articles/2008/01/02/looking-up-ips-with-mdns-and-dns-sd-on-mac-os-x-10-4#comment-3999