What network names/addresses does Mac OS X server support out of the box?

Question

Does someone know all the correct names, syntax for ways to locate an OS X server (without adding non-Apple software)? From what I can tell, you have:

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Network Interface address: 00:19:e3:aa:aa:aa

IPv4 address: 11.22.33.44

IPv6 address: 3ffe:3ffe:3ffe:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf

Domain name: myserver.fqdn.com.

AppleTalk Computer name: My Server

Multicast Domain name: my-server.local

NetBIOS (Windows): MYSERVER

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Am I using the correct terms here? Are there others that might have a different syntax?

Answer 1

I wouldn't go by that single MAC address prefix. OS X Server runs on pretty much any recent Mac (G4, G5, Intel) and can also run in virtual machine environments.

Answer 2

The Network Interface address or MAC address is different from NIC to NIC, so do not use that.

Answer 3

Maybe I'm not understanding your question, but are you trying to uniquely identify a particular box? You can get the "system serial number" which should be unique per machine. Another option is by the MAC address. link text