Re: RE : [lwip-users] Device name

[Nicolas Pinault]

> 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