Re: [Babel-users] AHCP and hostnames [was: Announce hostname on local interface]

2013-01-19 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Since dnsmasq is rather common on just about everything embedded, and doesn't support a dynupdate facility, Machines which are configured by DHCP have their names automatically included in the DNS and ___the names can specified by each machine___ or centrally by associating a name with a

Re: [Babel-users] AHCP and hostnames [was: Announce hostname on local interface]

2013-01-09 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/07/2013 02:20 PM, Dave Taht wrote: Since dnsmasq is rather common on just about everything embedded, and doesn't support a dynupdate facility, but DOES: I'm not so sure that's true...

Re: [Babel-users] AHCP and hostnames [was: Announce hostname on local interface]

2013-01-07 Thread Dave Taht
I had put up several of my thoughts towards extending the ahcp protocol somewhat, here: https://github.com/dtaht/dnsmasq-ahcp/blob/master/src/ahcp-extensions.md I never got much further than getting some syntax support for ahcp into that version of dnsmasq and having it open the socket, and was

Re: [Babel-users] AHCP and hostnames

2013-01-07 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
What application do you have in mind? Assume no global connectivity, where do you register? With the DNS server advertised by AHCP? Since dnsmasq is rather common on just about everything embedded, and doesn't support a dynupdate facility Oh, that's just an implementation detail. (Famous

Re: [Babel-users] AHCP and hostnames

2013-01-07 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek j...@pps.jussieu.fr wrote: What application do you have in mind? Assume no global connectivity, where do you register? With the DNS server advertised by AHCP? With some sort of dynupdate facility, kind of ok, but it is faster to do in the