This message was deleted.

On mac, if you provide root credentials, it creates a fake network that DHCPs onto your local network; so connecting to your host should be possible. If you want to ssh into the host for whatever reason, please see https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/discussions/1313 — but please note that if you make changes we probably can't support that.

I got the connection kinda-sorta figured out - but it is an IP address - I was wondering if I can use a DNS name for it as I have. no idea how reliable that IP is across different times and installs