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

Why not boot in DHCP first time and then change the set-up to static ip
configuration once happy with IP assume once the device is installed it
will remain there.

I to would like to implement a host name setup will have to look into how
windows achieves this.

On 20 June 2012 14:05, Ty <[email protected]> wrote:

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> 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.
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> --- 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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