[TriLUG] OT: setting hostname on Nintendo DS box

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> 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.
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>
> didn't know about mdns. interesting
>
> Joe
>
Apple is big on using mDNS for things like this.  Service Discovery, 
automatic bootstrapping of disparate devices, etc.  It actually works 
reasonably well with out being entirely chatty.

Aaron S. Joyner