From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QPdNi-0007d3-43 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 16:25:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D6221C16B; Thu, 26 May 2011 16:24:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBB51C16B for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 16:24:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B3E2083E for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 12:24:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 26 May 2011 12:24:19 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=pG2rFVtxmcZH9I4JTzUWKFtc2X4=; b=bvyjT3IqOxPl/F0fbC8i3M6Ha3ZxUg0QraPPZ9T+WCNelznNu1bf0J0yZmMYNltLtyooHZ51vJv0zZbuLcoZh+h3bAP6fo58U2JmqY27Qx+DOfmjTJ9nLVK89uG3j2n2HiC4180wz0KdUm5XHu3TDYM2L/dg+CeKvAMSVCc87nY= X-Sasl-enc: UcMSmEBmiYGjRsD/uKN+rpNMdU58TzknzDyDyMXTw101 1306427057 Received: from [192.168.5.18] (serv.binarywings.net [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0DF83449AD5 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 12:24:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DDE7EA5.7090206@binarywings.net> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 18:24:05 +0200 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110507 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] network discovery tools References: <871uzmwon0.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <871uzmwon0.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigBED87555F7ED432282BCAA05" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 92cf8d10e1b4052c53721e06f2a6826a This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigBED87555F7ED432282BCAA05 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 25.05.2011 21:45, schrieb Harry Putnam: > There must be a number of people who post here that have had to do > this problem. >=20 > Discover the addresses of computers on a home network that have > connected by way of DHCP. For example: Several wireless connections. >=20 > I've used static IPS for around 10 yrs, always seemed handier for > things like ssh between home lan computers.=20 >=20 > But recently started using DHCP for wireless connections. It must be > such a popular method for some reason. >=20 > But when you do it that way, and say want to VNC or ssh or the like to > something connected by a dhcp serving WAP then how do you find the > address? >=20 > That is, besides something like accessing the WAP and checking the IPs > connected to it. >=20 > Is there some quick and sure way to discover any IPs on the home lan? >=20 > Some kind of mapper tool? >=20 >=20 While I personally prefer a combined DHCP+DNS server like dnsmasq, you can also take a look at the whole Zeroconf/MDNS/Avahi/Bonjour stack. I'm not really sure if you can configure common devices and Linux PCs to use the DNS server for internet addresses and MDNS for local ones. In theory, it should be possible since you can distinguish them (local addresses should not be fully qualified _or_ have the domain .local). net-misc/mDNSResponder, sys-auth/nss-mdns and net-dns/avahi are probably good starting points. Hope this helps, Florian Philipp --------------enigBED87555F7ED432282BCAA05 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3efqoACgkQqs4uOUlOuU8bogCdGf4br+n9UC7qhuHPSEUEQ4Fa gQwAn0ZI0WM2FjNtjYScs3KBLkLD1XB/ =cIx4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigBED87555F7ED432282BCAA05--