[mythtv] [PATCH]: show IP address in system status screen

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Tue Mar 9 19:56:50 EST 2004


Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:53:20PM +0100, eric moors wrote:
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>>A small patch to mythfrontend to show the IP address of the machine in the 
>>system status screen.
>>I use my mythtv-box in a home network, and would like to connect to it from 
>>my other PC, as I don't
>>have a keyboard or mouse connected to my mythtv box. My home network 
>>consists of a DHCP server, but no DNS server, so I needed the IP address of 
>>the mythtv box. I couldn't find it easily, so I patched mythfrontend to 
>>display it on the TV screen.
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>Wouldn't it be better to set up a DNS server rather than to put workarounds
>like this into the various applications that you may use?
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Could your parents, grandparents etc set up a DNS server?  Should they 
really need to?


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