Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:36:46 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <3B4DEE3E.C10A666E@mindspring.com> References: <20010711122814.D3021-100000@Aphex.NewGold.NET> <3B4C481B.D817A2B8@iowna.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: > > > Are you saying you use DHCP for servers? If so, maybe > > > I should shut up and listen for a while because > > > apparently there's something here I can learn. DNSUPDAT: You DHCP server fixes up your DNS, so that your "FILESERVER1" is always "FILESERVER1", regardless of its IP address. > > I did for a long time because I simply couldn't get a > > static IP from my ISP. Hell, I'd love to use it now, > > then I wouldn't have to make sure I hardcode the > > IP/route/netmask/etc. into all my startup scripts on > > every box. But maybe convenience is a bad thing. > > Hmmm ... but I'm talking about servers in general. It's > one thing to have a dynamic IP on the outside of a > firewall machine, but do you have a dynamic IP on the > inside? Do other servers use dynamic IPs when they aren't > forced to? Sure. You aren't supposed to find services with DNS, anyway: you are supposed to use SLP. See http://www.openslp.org/ ...I did the patches that made it so it would compile and run on FreeBSD, and they included them. You should also note the BSD license on the code... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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