host shows OFFLINE with correct mac and ip

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Wake On LAN, WakeOnLAN, shutdown software for Windows. A powerful WOL, ping, shutdown, GUI application.

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host shows OFFLINE with correct mac and ip #191

Open Dan-Essin opened 2 years ago

Dan-Essin commented 2 years ago

host is mac monterey. the ip and mac addresses are set correctly (?). I can ping the ip and connect with vnc but WOL shows host as being offline.

Can someone please explain this?

Thank you

Moopere commented 2 years ago

Sounds like DNS not resolving the IP to me. Can you ping the Mac's hostname? I think WOL tries the host name, resolving to an IP which is then pinged to get an indication of the host being live or not.