On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 11:58 -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > >> However, what I'd like to do somehow is make my RFC1819 addresses > >> remain the same at home > > hs> The big question is: why do you actually care for the address? > hs> There are only rare cases where this is actually needed for a client. > > Two needs come to mind: > > o ssh-ing to one of the machines ... how do I know its address? > > o printing to one of the machines running CUPS ... again, I must > specify the addr of the print server machine > > If you can suggest a way to do these things, I'll be glad to use your > approach rather than having "fixed" addresses ... > > > Thanks for your comments!
Actually, in both of these cases I would suggest just running a local DNS server and enabling dynamic DNS updates. I actually use a combination of dynamic DNS and static DHCP leases at home. I have static DHCP pointing to DNS entries. So I can change my DHCP lease address by changing just the DNS entry. The only thing that DNS names don't work for sometimes is iptables, so if you're doing a lot of machine specific filtering and forwarding in iptables, it's still useful to have static leases defined. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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