Discover IP address of machine

[honestpuck]

Hi all,

I’ve got a tiny script in OS 9 that gets the IP address from ‘Network Setup Scripting’ but this beast don’t exist in OS X.

Anyone know how to get the IP address of the machine now?

Tony Williams

[RussG]

Go into system profile > Network. All info should be there.

RussG

[Petroleum]

set ifaddr to do shell script “ipconfig getifaddr en0”
display dialog ifaddr

P.

[jonn8]

set ifaddr to do shell script “ipconfig getifaddr en0”
display dialog ifaddr

This only works if your connected through the ethernet connection (not, say, through an AirPort or modem PPP connection). It also only gets the internal IP address, not necessarily the public IP address. This has been covered here before. Try this:

–Open this script in a new Script Editor window.

set the_interface to 0
repeat
set ip_internal to “”
try
set ip_internal to do shell script (“ipconfig getifaddr en” & the_interface)
end try
if ip_internal is not “” then exit repeat
set the_interface to the_interface + 1
if the_interface = 5 then
set ip_internal to “«unknown»”
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
try
set ip_external to word -6 of (do shell script “curl http://checkip.dyndns.org”)
if ip_external = “” then set ip_external to “«unknown»”
on error
set ip_external to “«unknown»”
end try
return {ip_internal, ip_external}

Jon

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