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Olivier Nicole wrote:

> ? (10.0.0.1) at 00:e0:29:ad:5a:aa on em0 [ethernet]
> 
> will do the trick, but it is a bit too heavy for the purpose, I'd
> prefer a solution that only send an ARP request.
> 

If you just want to avoid the DNS lookup, you can use arp -an.
Its much faster :)

-Charlie