What is the default Clie UX50 hostname?

[pravit]

The wireless network at my university requires that everyone go through a registration process before they let anybody on. Part of this registration process involves inputting the device's hostname. Does anyone know what this is? I just looked at my router's client table and saw a device named ";Ð$Ê", but I'm not sure how to type this in on my Clie. Thanks!

[m0nkeyb0y]

I'm not sure there is a default host name on the UX - my router does not detect a name, just a MAC address. Have you tried that instead?

[arth1]

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) assigns an IP address to the connecting computer based on three parameters:

1: The hardware ethernet address, also known as MAC address, which is on the format 00:0b:6c:12:34:56 (and printed at the bottom of your UX-50).
2: A user set hostname, which generally is a single word.
3: A uid, which is generally automatically generated and not humanly readable.

The latter two are optional. The uid is most often used to ensure that a returning host gets the same IP address as the last time, if it's still available. The user hostname is usually used to reserve that name in DNS if possible, so name lookup will work.

However, the user hostname CAN also be used for filtering, and no IP given unless the user hostname is on a list. This is a very bad practice, and so easy to spoof that it's worthless as an access control method. If your uni does this, the sysadmin needs to be replaced.

If the admin at your uni is any good, they will ask for the WANTED hostname, and the DHCP server will always return that for your MAC address, and register it in DNS for you.

[pravit]

Sadly, I can't replace the sysadmin at my university. I'll be finished here in a couple days anyway, so it's no big deal.