Does anybody discovered how to instruct connman to update the host entry? I have a functional ddns server that receives updates from win clients, network-manager and wicd enabled clients, but not from connman. Do I have to instruct avahi-daemon to do so or can I configure connman to do that task?
On Friday, January 17, 2014 at 6:41:34 PM UTC-2, Devin Linnington wrote: > > 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/d/optout.
