From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 11 5:36:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF8E37B403 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 05:36:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6BCWVZ27034; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:32:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B4C481B.D817A2B8@iowna.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:35:39 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Mallett Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: <20010711122814.D3021-100000@Aphex.NewGold.NET> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joseph Mallett wrote: > > > Are you saying you use DHCP for servers? If so, maybe I should shut up > > and > > listen for a while because apparently there's something here I can > > learn. > > I did for a long time because I simply couldn't get a static IP from my > ISP. Hell, I'd love to use it now, then I wouldn't have to make sure I > hardcode the IP/route/netmask/etc. into all my startup scripts on every > box. But maybe convenience is a bad thing. Hmmm ... but I'm talking about servers in general. It's one thing to have a dynamic IP on the outside of a firewall machine, but do you have a dynamic IP on the inside? Do other servers use dynamic IPs when they aren't forced to? -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message