Re: How to bind host-name with an IP address

Thanks guys for the great solution but I need a solution that would be seamless to the client/end-user. So I think I'll have to implement a udp server along with my http server.  The UDP server would respond to broadcast messages from the client with its IP Address, Mask, default gateway.  The client will need to send this broadcast before it communicate with the HTTP server.  I hope this is the most practical solution.
 

--- In [email protected], Dean Leiber <adit@...> wrote:
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> On Jun 19, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Ty wrote:
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> > The problem I have is within LAN, the rabbitweb IP address isn't necessarily static ( 1 day it might be 192.168.1.13 and another day I might be 192.168.0.12). The app that I use to connect to the rabbitweb via LAN doesn't work 100% of the time. I need a way method for the app to connect to the rabbitweb by a hostname( for ex. 'wxyz') instead of 192.168.0.13, for example. I need to tell the router that the rabbitweb is also known as 'wxyz'. 
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> I haven't been following this too closely, but wouldn't something along the lines of Zero Configuration Networking (zeroconf.org) (aka Bonjour for the Mac people) be along the lines that you're looking for?
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> Dean
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