On Saturday, 03-08-2024 at 15:40 Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 10:35 PM Lee <ler...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 7:29 PM Dan Ritter wrote:
> > >
> > > Lee wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 10:40 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I personally remove mDNS and Bonjour from my machines. mDNS is not the
> > > > > source of truth on my networks. Rather, DNS is the source of truth in
> > > > > my networks ...
> > > >
> > > > Do you have any network printers? That work without having mDNS
> > > > enabled?
> > >
> > > I do. If you assign an IP and a DNS name to the IP, all the
> > > network printers I am aware of will work just fine. (They don't
> > > care about the DNS name, either, but it's more convenient if you
> > > don't want to remember the IP.)
> >
> > Yep, a static IP address is assigned via DHCP and the name exists in
> > DNS. Now what?
> >
> > if it's not obvious, I know appx. zip about linux administration, so
> > hints about what to do after assigning a name and address would be
> > appreciated.
>
> As far as DNS goes, the only hosts that require a static IP address
> are your DNS servers. Just about everything else can get an address
> from DHCP, including file servers, mail servers and print servers.
>
> When I was an admin at the Social Security Administration, the SSA ran
> in that configuration. SSA had about 120,000 hosts on the network at
> the time, and the agency had no problems in the configuration. They
> used a private Class A network with 10.*.*.* addresses. I think SSA
> also used static IP addresses for gateways, but I can't recall for
> certain. And gateways were always .1 or .2 by convention on the
> network segment.
>
> At the time, I _think_ SSA had the second-largest network in the world
> - only IBM was larger. SSA also used a token ring network up until
> about 2001 or 2002. The agency did not cutover to ethernet until about
> 2002 or 2003.
>
> If you are interested in some good reading on Unix & Linux networking,
> then pick up a copy of W. Richard Stevens' TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume
> I: The Protocols (<https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201633469>). It is a
> great book to learn from. Stevens gives you plenty of command line
> examples to demonstrate concepts.
Thanks for another interesting book.
>
> Jeff
>
>
