[Buildroot] Q: Name resolving ?

Nicholas Walton nwalton at aplopteng.com
Fri Feb 12 17:39:05 UTC 2010


On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Vellemans, Noel
<Noel.Vellemans at visionbms.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Don't know if this is the right place to drop this question, but maybe
> someone can help or give me a hint.
>
> I've build a buildroot system (for an at91 based board) with busybox and
> DHCP client  (udhcpc), which is all working.
>
> Here comes the question:
>
> I would like to that the AT91BOARD1 registers his HOSTNAME (which is
> AT91BOARD1) with our 'windows' network.
> Someone that can give me a hint how to get this working ?
>
> ( name resolving on the at91-board is working,but the at91-board  does not
> register itself to the 'win32'-nameserver(s) )
>
> Do I need a package to get this working or is this a option somewhere (that
> is not enabled) ?
>
> Regards Noel.

Make sure your network's DHCP server is also acting as a DNS server
(not all of them do), and in /etc/network/interfaces, you have
something like:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
    hostname AT91BOARD1


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