ssh username@rendezvousname.local
Replace username with the SSH user's name, and rendezvousname with the Rendezvous name of the machine. Sure is useful, especially if the hosts are on DHCP!
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This may have been obvious, but I just discovered it recently ... if you'd like to SSH to a host computer, and you know its Rendezvous name but not its IP address, you can still get to it:
Replace username with the SSH user's name, and rendezvousname with the Rendezvous name of the machine. Sure is useful, especially if the hosts are on DHCP!
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Make SSH connections via Rendezvous addresses
Even easier - select File > Connect to Server in Terminal, or click the Terminal icon in the Dock and select Connect to Server. You'll see all the computers with Rendezvous that are available and which services (FTP, SFTP, SSH or Telnet) they have available.
Make SSH connections via Rendezvous addresses
Honestly, this is not meant to be a flame of the post, but this easy naming is the whole *point* of Rendezvous: being able to address an arbitrary machine by name on a network with no formal DNS. Combine this with discovery, and that's the whole magic. Any of the apps that work with Rendezvous could have been "normal" network apps, but their appeal is drawn largely from the ad-hoc nature of Rendezvous "networks".
Make SSH connections via Rendezvous addresses
While trying to ssh with .local:
Make SSH connections via Rendezvous addresses
club60.org just create a alias.
replace user with your username
and
neighbormacip with the ip.
then just type connectneibormac or a shorter version that you can remember.
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