knathraak;334709 Wrote: 
> Actually, that's not true.  I have a number of devices on my network
> that get their hostnames via dhcp.  My squeezeboxes used to be among
> them.  I've attached a wireshark capture of the dhcp offer that shows
> my dhcp server pushing out a number of options including hostname,
> domain name, dns, wins server, and others.
> 
> My dhcp updates my dns, but that's not really at issue.  What is at
> issue is that I have to manually set the squeezeboxes' device names in
> their network setups in order for them to show up properly in
> squeezecenter.  This used to not be the case.  It used to be the case
> that the hostnames of my two squeezeboxes, squeeze and squeeze-ds would
> get set automatically and would show up in slimserver.

I guess I was wrong, I have looked a bit further and I think I know
what you mean now.
In the options of a scope or reservation you can set the hostname.
This may be usefull for reservations only I think, as the same hostname
for a whole scope doesn't sound workable to me ...


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