Network

Every address this machine has right now, one Enter from the clipboard.

palv0.1.0Systembundled

Install in pal

Ships inside pal. Installing puts an editable copy ahead of the bundled one.

Network: Every address in three sections, the detail pane on the Wi-Fi interface
Every address in three sections, the detail pane on the Wi-Fi interface
Network: The public IP with where it is and whose it is
The public IP with where it is and whose it is
Network: dns at the root finds the resolvers
dns at the root finds the resolvers
Network: Copy the value, or open the Network settings
Copy the value, or open the Network settings
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What it does

Network

This machine's addresses, one row per value: the value is the row's name so it reads at a glance, the label is the subtitle, enter copies. Live, listed again when the panel shows and the last listing is over a minute old; cmd+r lists now. The palette opens with the detail pane showing.

The rows

section rows from
This machine every interface's IPv4 and global IPv6 addresses (loopback and link-local left out), the Wi-Fi one labelled with its SSID; the Tailscale IPv4 and IPv6; the hostname; the Bonjour .local name on macOS macOS: ifconfig, networksetup -listallhardwareports (the kind), ipconfig getsummary <dev> (SSID, security); Linux: ip -j addr, iw dev; tailscale ip where the CLI is on PATH (or the Tailscale.app binary on macOS); os.hostname(), scutil --get LocalHostName
Internet the public IP, with the city, country and organisation when the endpoint gives them one GET of public_ip_url with a 3 s timeout, kept 10 minutes (cmd+r fetches again; a failure is not kept); JSON with ip (ipinfo), query (ip-api) or connection.isp (ipwho.is) shapes, or a bare address
Network the default gateway with its interface; the DNS servers in resolver order macOS: route -n get default, scutil --dns; Linux: ip -j route show default, /etc/resolv.conf (behind systemd-resolved's stub, resolvectl dns)

Every tool runs with a 3 s timeout and a missing one just leaves its rows out. The tunnel interface carrying the Tailscale addresses (utun4, tailscale0) is folded into the Tailscale rows. When nothing has an address, or there is no route, an inert row says so; the public IP row says why when the fetch fails.

Keywords make the rows findable from the root: wifi, lan, ip for an interface address, public, wan, external for the public IP, gateway, router for the route, dns, nameserver for a resolver, tailscale, vpn for those.

The detail pane lists every field of the row: interface, kind, SSID, security, IPv4, IPv6, MAC and status for an address; city, region, country, organisation and when it was fetched for the public IP; the resolver order for a DNS server.

Keyboard

keys action
enter Copy the value
cmd+enter Open Network settings: the Network pane of System Settings on macOS; on Linux the first of gnome-control-center network, systemsettings kcm_networkmanagement, nm-connection-editor installed
cmd+i Hide or show the detail pane (open by default here)
cmd+r List again, and fetch the public IP again

Setup

Nothing to install: the rows come from the OS's own tools. tailscale on PATH (or Tailscale.app) adds the Tailscale rows.

The SSID on macOS: since Sonoma the system redacts the network name for a process without Location Services access (ipconfig getsummary prints <redacted>, networksetup -getairportnetwork says not associated), so without that grant the Wi-Fi row is labelled by kind (en0 · Wi-Fi) and the detail pane says the SSID is hidden. Grant pal Location access in System Settings and the name appears; everything else works without it.

The public IP is one request to public_ip_url (ipinfo.io by default); set it empty for no Internet section and no request at all.

Settings, [extensions.network]:

key type default what
public_ip_url text https://ipinfo.io/json The endpoint the public IP row asks. Empty: no Internet section. https://api.ipify.org (a bare address) and http://ip-api.com/json work too.

What it does not do

  • Flush DNS: on macOS it is dscacheutil -flushcache; killall -HUP mDNSResponder, which needs sudo, and the host has no way to ask for a password; run it from a terminal.
  • Change anything: no joining, no interface toggles; Open Network settings hands that to the OS. Wi-Fi networks are the Wi-Fi extension's.
  • Speed tests, ping, port scans: only what the machine already knows about itself, plus the one public IP request.
  • Watch for changes: the rows are as of the last listing, a minute old at most when the panel shows.

Platforms

macOS and Linux, with the platform's own tools as in the table above. The Bonjour .local name and the SSID redaction are macOS only; the resolvectl path is for a Linux behind systemd-resolved.

Palettes 1

  • Networknetworklive

    Live rows, listed again when the panel shows and the last listing is over a minute old; ⌘R lists now and fetches the public IP again.

    • ↵Copy the value
    • ⌘↵Open Network settings
    • ⌘RList again, public IP included

Actions

  • CopyThe row's value.↵
  • Open Network settingsSystem Settings on macOS; gnome-control-center, systemsettings or nm-connection-editor on Linux.⌘↵

Settings

Extension, [extensions.network]

public_ip_url
https://ipinfo.io/json text

Fetched with a 3 s timeout and kept 10 minutes; JSON with `ip` (and `city`, `country`, `org` when it has them) or a bare address. Empty: no public IP row.

Defaults shown. Change them in pal's settings window or in the config file.