However, with “ssh CHOSENBONJOURNAME.local” working too, I am ASKING A QUESTION here which seems beyond trivial Google search research. So, with ping CHOSENBONJOURNAME.local specifically on Mac OS X and macOS we can fetch the IP address. (in the environment, using eg “env | grep SSH” on macOS High Sierra, and surely many other platforms for that matter, incl beyond BSD, Darwin, macOS etc ALTHOUGH the Bonjour serviices maybe are not available? On QNAP NAS, for example it is though, under the name avahi, if my memory serves…) Is it possible to use the address given from eg

Enter your password when it prompts you to enter your Mac user’s password.

Sudo nano /private/etc/hosts or sudo nano /etc/hosts on newer MacOS. In the terminal window you just opened copy/paste the command string below, and press return. You may either type Terminal in the Spotlight search or by navigating to Applications, then the Utilities folder, then click on the Terminal app. Manually configuring your domain with the IP address of your InMotion Hosting server, will allow you to test your website without affecting the server where your domain is pointed to via the name servers/DNS. This file can be used to force your computer to resolve your website to a specific IP address rather than resolving your website using the DNS found in the name servers the domain is pointed to. The hosts file is used by your computer to lookup/resolve domain names to an IP address. If you are using Windows, please refer to our guide on how to Modify Your Hosts File Using Windows. NOTE: The following guide is intended to assist if you are using a Mac OS X computer.

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