Hi everyone, I'm trying to get the beaglebone to send its hostname to the DNS server when it receives an IP address via DHCP. This is apparently automatic in many distros: http://www.held.org.il/blog/2011/01/make-dhcp-auto-update-dynamic-dns/
Ideally I'll be able to use this hostname when trying to connect to a headless board over the network. I found out that the Angstrom distro uses connman and tried to look for some kind of configuration that would control this but I came up empty. I've asked the connman dist list but I'm asking here as well in case anyone else got it working. The obvious is 'use avahi', however that doesn't seem to work across all of my machines. Although avahi seems to update my windows 7 box fine (<hostname>.local resolves to the beaglebone), I have windows xp machines and some linux servers that don't seem to be able to see the beaglebone. Note that I can send pings to the beaglebones IP just fine, it's just the hostname resolution that I can't get working. ifconfig on beaglebone shows IP address of 10.101.1.126 (internal work network). Subnet mask is 255.255.252.0, win7 machine on same subnet but my windows xp and linux servers are on different subnets (but all within the mask). I think this is why avahi isn't updating those. nslookup has no entires for my beaglebones <hostname>, or <hostname>.local. I made sure that the nameserver on my win machine is the same as the beaglebone. Any ideas? I don't really want to load ubuntu but I may have to just to get the dhclient service to get this working. Thanks, -Devin -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
