In
<off9cb0ea2.92a21273-on852576b5.00494604-852576b5.004ba...@siriuscom.com>,
on 01/24/2010
at 08:46 AM, Rob Schramm <rob.schr...@siriuscom.com> said:
>Of course if you just hardcode the IP address .. then DNS is removed from
> the equation.
At the risk of being burned when your network people reallocate addresses.
Never hard code an IP address unless you control the allocation or have
airtight[1] procedures to be notified in advance when it changes.
[1] "They promised" isn't good enough.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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