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rvermeulen98 • yesterday at 3:30 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Thanks for sharing! This is definitely something I will look into, I am all in favor to simplify the current implementation of finding the "default" OS network interface.

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contingencies • yesterday at 5:46 PM

You'd better use the default route and not some random IP, particularly DNS IPs which people often meddle with.

  # IPv4 default route only
  uname
  Darwin$ route -n get 0.0.0.0 | grep interface | cut -d ':' -f2
  Linux$ route -nv  |grep ^0.0.0.0 | awk '{print $NF}'