Changing the DHCP name in AVR-3310

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12/15/09 at 7:43am

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I have a network connected Denon AVR-3310CI

I have the device set for DHCP. It comes up and works fine. However there is an annoyance.

The hostname the device specifies to the DHCP server is the MAC address of the NIC.

This is obviously less than ideal as it means I have to either remember the MAC address of my 3310, or hardcode an IP and use that. (My little router does not do CNAMEs...)

Anyone know how to change the Hostname at the 3310 requests when it DHCPs? I tried changing the Friendly Name, but that only seems to affect DLNA operations.

Thanks.

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12/15/09 at 5:05pm

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You'll need to enter a static configuration in your DHCP server for that MAC address giving a host-name string. You don't HAVE to give it a static IP address, but why not at that point?

Depending on your DHCP and DNS servers and configuration, it may populate the forward and reverse DNS entries for you.

Since you asked the above question, most likely this isn't set up, so making a static IP and entering this for the two zones in your DNS server is the path of least resistance.

For more information, refer to BOOTP/DHCP Option 12 in RFC1533.

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12/16/09 at 6:59am

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Thanks. I figured this out yesterday after making my post.

I had actually tried this before, but didn't wait for the original lease to expire out of the cache before powering on the AVR again, so my DHCP server was just re-issuing/renewing the existing lease.

After waiting for the lease to expire, then powering on the AVR, it worked the way I wanted it