Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:43:15 -0400 From: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> To: 'User Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Odd aliasing question Message-ID: <47E3C983.2030205@pixelhammer.com> In-Reply-To: <47E2D7A2.3030107@unsane.co.uk> References: <47E2C758.4040408@pixelhammer.com> <47E2D7A2.3030107@unsane.co.uk>
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Vince wrote: > DAve wrote: >> I've looked but found no examples to give me confidence. While I have >> lots of servers running alias IPs the IPs are all on the same network. >> I've have been informed by my network admin that we will need to >> change the IPs of our legacy name servers (we are just dragging them >> along for a time, new name servers are up and domains are being moved >> to them). >> >> Currently the IP of ns2 is 208.252.191.2, this needs to change to >> 65.123.104.25. The network admin is telling me he will have the router >> for that NOC cage handle both IPs no problems. However I need to >> continue answering the old IP until clients can get their equipment >> reconfigured. >> > This will work fine. > >> Can I alias 208.252.191.2 once I change the NIC's IP to 65.123.104.25 >> with a default route of 65.123.104.1? >> > yes, >> What netmask would use for the alias line? >> > Whatever you currently use for those IPs. Well whaddaya know. Seems non intuitive to me but I'll give it a shot and use 0xffffffff same as any other alias. > >> This seems not possible to me, but you can learn something new >> everyday... >> > I've been supporting servers for about 10 years and I'm still learning > :) Thats why its still fun. > I don't know about fun, interesting for certain ;^) Thanks, DAve -- Google finally, after 7 years, provided a logo for veterans. Thank you Google. What to do with my signature now?
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