Re: [maemo-developers] Local DNS

2007-01-31 Thread andrew gatt
I'm trying to keep a client / server situation simple to set up. As the tablet requires DHCP to function (by default) i was going to make the server use DHCP and set up dynamic DNS so the tablet can find the server with just the name. However as pointed out this doesn't work i.e. just putti

Re: [maemo-developers] Local DNS

2007-01-31 Thread andrew gatt
Marius Gedminas wrote: I received a copy of this email (with a different message-ID) personally, and I replied to it personally. Here's my reply, because I think it may be useful to others. Sorry reply failure (reply instead of all)! I'm trying to keep a client / server situation simple to

Re: [maemo-developers] Local DNS

2007-01-31 Thread Marius Gedminas
I received a copy of this email (with a different message-ID) personally, and I replied to it personally. Here's my reply, because I think it may be useful to others. On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:21:12AM +, andrew gatt wrote: > >Okay, it's https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=995 now. > >

Re: [maemo-developers] Local DNS

2007-01-31 Thread andrew gatt
Marius Gedminas wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:36:05PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:37:06PM +, andrew gatt wrote: The resolver is NOT accepting the "option domain-name" from the DHCP server - so even if the server says "You are in foo.example.net", t

Re: [maemo-developers] Local DNS

2007-01-29 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:36:05PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:37:06PM +, andrew gatt wrote: > > >The resolver is NOT accepting the "option domain-name" from the DHCP > > >server - so even if the server says "You are in foo.example.net", the > > >resolver is NOT b

Re: [maemo-developers] Local DNS

2007-01-29 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:37:06PM +, andrew gatt wrote: > >The resolver is NOT accepting the "option domain-name" from the DHCP > >server - so even if the server says "You are in foo.example.net", the > >resolver is NOT being instructed to try appending "foo.example.net" to a > >domain if it f

Re: [maemo-developers] Local DNS

2007-01-29 Thread andrew gatt
David Hagood wrote: In browser address bar: http://myserver The only system this doesn't work on is the 770 with ITOS2007 (i don't have any other versions). Am i doing something wrong or is the DNS resolving not set up properly on the 770? The resolver is NOT accepting the "option domain-

Re: [maemo-developers] Local DNS

2007-01-29 Thread David Hagood
> In browser address bar: > http://myserver > > The only system this doesn't work on is the 770 with ITOS2007 (i don't > have any other versions). Am i doing something wrong or is the DNS > resolving not set up properly on the 770? The resolver is NOT accepting the "option domain-name" from the D

[maemo-developers] Local DNS

2007-01-29 Thread andrew gatt
I have a router that also runs DHCP and DNS, i can request a lease with a udhcpc client. Using the -H hostname switch i can also update the DNS entry for the given IP address. However when i try and access this server doesn't work from the 770. It works from all my other machines (Windows and L