[TriLUG] OT: setting hostname on Nintendo DS box

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:

> Have you considered setting it with the DHCP response? You 
> could do it via his MAC address.

That would do it I guess. I don't really want to go to a lot 
of pain at my end about this. I was hoping that I could get 
his machine to behave like an other IP machine. If I can't 
I'll wait till there are problems and sort them out then.

> it's not unreasonable to do something like get an IP via DHCP, 
> use mDNS to see who else is on the network, if there's a collision, release 
> and renew with a different hostname, etc.

didn't know about mdns. interesting

Joe

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