[En-Nut-Discussion] Register hostname for Ethernut

[Edwin van den Oetelaar (Oetelaar Automatisering uit Best)]

Daniel wrote:
>  
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: en-nut-discussion-bounces at egnite.de
> [mailto:en-nut-discussion-bounces at egnite.de] Im Auftrag von Edwin van den
> Oetelaar (Oetelaar Automatisering uit Best)
> Gesendet: Freitag, 4. Dezember 2009 14:06
> An: Ethernut User Chat (English)
> Betreff: Re: [En-Nut-Discussion] Register hostname for Ethernut
> 
> Daniel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>  
>> My board uses DHCP to recieve an IP-address. How can I register a 
>> hostname for my Ethernut Board? I want to use a plain name in my 
>> browser, e.g http://MyBoard  to reach it.
>>  
>>  
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Daniel
> 
> add a line in the /etc/hosts file of the machine running the browser.
> 
> Like so :
> 
> 127.0.0.1	localhost
> 192.168.1.100	Myboard
> 
> 
> The long answer is to make a decent network setup with DNS and DHCP server
> properly configured.
> 
>> This is a nice way, but I want to realize a Ethernut-based solution. I
> want to give away several Ethernuts to costumers and I have no access to
> their computers and servers. When they use the board in their networks, they
> don't want to search the ip of the board in server-logs. They just want to
> type the name of the board into the browser. 

You have several options, none easy.
1 - add a display to show the ip-address
2 - let the ethernut post its internal ip-address/serialnumber to your website and let the user look 
it up there.
3 - use a fixed ip-address and let the user add that ip/subnet to their network

I face the same challenges, I chose option (1) for now.

Greetings,
Edwin