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01-13-2010

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How to find the IP address of a computer that I am connected to?

Hi all,
One of my computers (an iMac) was recently stolen, but I have been able to connect to it over the internet through Apple's 'back to my mac' feature. In order for the police to find these people they need to know the IP address of the stolen computer.

I suspect that I will have find the IP address through the terminal, so I was wondering how a UNIX user would go about finding the IP address of a computer that they have mounted as a disk image? (sorry if I am using Mac terminology here rather than Unix terminology).
Are there any log files that would list the IP addresses that have been accessed recently? (the computer has since disappeared, so this would be the preferred method)
If not, how would I find out what the IP address is when I am next able to access it?
I understand that the Mac OSX may do things differently to pure UNIX, but hopefully there are enough similarities to allow me to do what I need. My knowledge of how UNIX/the terminal works is undoubtedly very poor compared to most of the users of this forum (i.e. I only use UNIX for some very basic work on the supercomputers at university), so please do really spell it out for me!

Thanks in advance!

RJFoulston

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bt-network(1)							    bluez-tools 						     bt-network(1)

NAME

       bt-network - a bluetooth network manager

SYNOPSIS

       bt-network [OPTION...]

       Help Options:
	 -h, --help

       Application Options:
	 -a, --adapter=<name|mac>
	 -c, --connect <name|mac> <uuid>
	 -s, --server <gn|panu|nap> <brige>

DESCRIPTION

       This utility is used to manage network services (client/server).  All servers will be automatically unregistered when the application
       terminates.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	   Show help

       -a, --adapter <name|mac>
	   Specify adapter to use by his Name or MAC address
	   (if this option does not defined - default adapter used)

       -c, --connect <name|mac> <uuid>
	   Connect to the network device and return the network interface
	   name, uuid can be either one of "gn", "panu" or "nap"

       -s, --server <gn|panu|nap> <brige>
	   Register server for the provided UUID, every new connection to
	   this server will be added the bridge interface

AUTHOR

       Alexander Orlenko <zxteam@gmail.com>.

SEE ALSO

       bt-adapter(1) bt-agent(1) bt-audio(1) bt-device(1) bt-input(1) bt-monitor(1) bt-serial(1)

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