To ping a device via a name ('ping my-device' instead of 'ping
192.168.1.2') you need a name-to-IP-address service. This is usually
done with DNS, or in simpler cases, with just an entry in a hosts file
on every machine that should be able to resolve the name to an IP
address. As S. Ali Tokmen wrote, NetBIOS name service can do similar
things, but I would not use such an out-dated mechanism, which is OS
specific, too. That's what DNS was invented for.
If you want to update/alter DNS entries dynamically, you should use
dynamic DNS updates. See RFC 2136.
I'll have a look at it when I have time.
Cheers,
Juri
PS: '_' is not a valid character in terms of DNS host names...
It was just an example but thanks for the remark.
Thank you for your support.
Nicolas
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