Replying to myself ... lol. I think I found the answer to my own question:
how do I release my IP number. So I thought I'd share it and see how it if
anyone call tem if it will work. The problem was an obsolete ip address for
my personal server assigned via dhcp on my company's intranet. I had a new
ip address assigned, but the rest of the network didn't know it. So my site
wouldn't come up using my hostname, although it would come up with the new
ip number. So I had to get the rest of the intranet to update their ip
table(s) to associate my new ip number with my hostname.
Scanning a FAQ, I found this:
"Long leases can be disadvantageous in cases where you need to change a
configuration parameter or withdraw an address from use. The length of the
lease can mean the difference between having to go to every affected client
and rebooting it, or merely waiting a certain amount of time for the leases
to be renewed. (Note: one workaround is to fool with the client computer's
clock). "
So it seems that if I change my server's clock to a a future time, maybe
advance a year, that my ip lease will run out and I'll get a new and
updated number that will show up in the intranet's ip tables(s)? I'm
assuming that my original problem was due to having a "lease" on an old ip
number that was still in effect.
mitch
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Thanks. That didn't do that trick, but it was very helpful to know anyway.
I found out about network stop, too, because you your lead :). Dont you
just love newbs! But that didn't do the trick. I wanted to release my ip
number so I would get a new one via dhcp. Sorry I that wasn't clear in my
first post. The problem was that the ip number I had was new and wasn't in
synch with my computer's listing in the ip table(s) on the network. And I
can't do anything to get those updated, so I was trying to release my ip
number, in the hopes the when I got a new one via dhcp that the new one
would be added to the ip table(s). So restarting the network didn't do
anything in that regard, because I just got the same ip number back.
What I did, to resolve this, was to just type in the ip number that was in
the ip table(s), that I could get by typing "host tcob," the name of my
server. It gave me the ip number from the ip table(s) -- which wasn't the
one actually current and assigned to me. So I just entered it manually with
netconf. I really didn't want to do this, but I had to.
Is there anything wrong with manually adding the ip assigned to you with
dhcp on a company intranet?
mitch
Paul Cox
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On Friday, Oct 19, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How do I release my IP number, so I can have a new one assigned from my
> intranet dns?
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart" (as root) should do the trick.
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Paul Cox <paul at coxcentral dot com>
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