[En-Nut-Discussion] Register hostname for Ethernut

[Bernd Walter]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 02:32:13PM +0100, Daniel wrote:
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> -----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. 

But this is not a problem of Ethernut, it is part of the network setup.
It is the task of your customer to configure his own network.
An ethernut device is just a node in the network.
In the same thing as a phone device is not responsible for making a
public phonebok entry.

You might think about cheap DSL routers, which often provide such a
functionality, but this is only possible because they usually provide
the basic network structure including DNS services.

-- 
B.Walter <bernd at bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
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