On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Donald D Henson wrote:-
I had a reason for using the 127 addresses but I forget what it was. Shouldn't DHCP take care of all that?
If you haven't set them up as static IP addresses, then it should do.
My DHCP server is set to assign IP addresses starting with 192.168.1.100 and a maximum of 27 addresses. (subnet mask 255.255.255.128) How does DHCP deal with host names?
If you're running a DNS server, it's possible to have the DHCP server update the local zone file. Alternatively, if you've only have a few hosts on your network, assign them static IPs outside the dynamic pool and set up the hosts files with a list of them. On my network, I have a DHCP server[0] which will provide "static" IPs to the known hosts. For other hosts, usually virtual machines used for testing out development versions or guest machines on my network, it assigns IP addresses from its dynamic pool. Finally, there's also another dynamic pool used for network booting[1]. As for the DNS for the various hosts, those are all set up in a static DNS zone file that is synchronised between the three DNS servers on my little network. All this was set up years ago and has been [0] Well, two actually. I have a secondary one that has a mirror of the configuration and so could be activated if the primary server goes down[2]. [1] Although I gave up with that after a very short time without actually making it work. I really must get back to that and sort it out so it works properly. [2] This also applies to my web server as well. If it goes down for any reason, one quick change to the routeing table in my ADSL router and nobody would know anything had happened. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-P2 @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~15Mkeys SUSE 10.1 32 | | openSUSE 10.3 32bit | openSUSE 11.0 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | openSUSE 10.3 64bit | openSUSE 11.0 64bit RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC | RISC OS 3.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org