On Fri, 9 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, but if the addresses change occasionally, then it would still be a mess > even with setting up a DNS, yes? (given that the hosts file needs IP > addresses?)
The suggestion of dynamic dns is probably the best one. Check out dhis.org. > Out of curiosity, do DHCP-administered addresses change only when a lease > expires without renewal? (These machines are not allowed to stay up > constantly.) If your ip is not in use, the lease has _not_ expired, and there are no free ip's to give out, a dhcp server may use your ip. We have a week or two for our ip here (I guess the client sends a renew request every few hours so it knows the client is alive). However, when my ip would change over the weekend, I could tell they ran out of ip's. If we aren't short on ip's, my address will stay for a few months (summer and winter break). Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX systems have regularly been broken into, beaten, | | brutalized, corrupted, commandeered, compromised, and illegally fscked. | | -- UNIX System Administration Handbook |
