On 8/21/10 11:52 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> >> I can remember early network printers using bootp and the assuming that >> they could use that one ip address forever. today the printer will dhcp >> and advertise it's availability in the same broadcast domain and may >> well reregister it's name in dynamic dns if possible. > > Funny... I remember printers only thinking that if they were going to get > moved, they'd also likely get unplugged and get a new address after > the move.
rfc 951 made no provision in the protocol for the recovery of an address. you may well get a new one but the old one is assigned forever until someone prunes the cruft > Owen >