Finding your Raspberry Pi on the network

When Raspberry Pi's green light has stopped blinking and only the red power light is visible, this indicates that the Pi has finished booting and is connected to the network. However, now you need to find it.Wi-Fi uses dynamic addresses (DHCP – Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). Every time you connect Raspberry Pi to your network, it may get a different address. Visiting the admin page on your Wi-Fi router and writing down the IP address works in the short term. However, doing that every time the address changes is frustrating and may not be available in some situations.Luckily, the Raspberry Pi uses a technology known as mDNS (Multicast Domain Name System) so that nearby computers can find it. A client computer will broadcast a local message to ask for devices with the name learnrob3.local, and the Raspberry Pi will respond with the address to find it. This technology is also known by the names Zeroconf and Bonjour. Recent versions...