[TriLUG] OT: setting hostname on Nintendo DS box

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

My son with his Ninendo DS box, just discovered the home 
wifi network ("Dad, what's a WEP key?"). He's had the unit 
for about 3yrs and he kept telling me it could connect to 
the internet. Of course I didn't believe him. I had no idea 
that the unit had a wifi card till tonight. Within minutes 
he's playing a game with a guy in Mexico and another in 
Japan. To say I'm surprised is putting it mildly.

The box comes up in dhcp/DNS as "NintendoDS", which I 
assume is the default machine name. Assuming a 
bunch of his friends come over, they'll have a DNS name 
collision (which probably won't bother them or the DNS, but 
I'd like to know whose unit I'm pinging if ever I need to). 
How does he change the unit's name?

When I set up wifi for an event where there were a bunch of 
people with Palm computers, enough of them knew how to 
change the unit's machine name that all eventually were 
unique. Thinking that this was common knowledge, I didn't 
bother writing it down. Now with google I can't find how to 
set the machine name for Palm computers or for a NintendoDS. 
I can't find any useful entries for "NintendoDS" with 
google, or "machine info" "set machinename/hostname 
NintendoDS". The Nintendo search engine at nintendo.com 
gives no hits for "machinename/hostname NintendoDS".

Thanks Joe

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