From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 12 11:36:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD30437B403 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:36:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.133.118.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.133.118]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01851; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:36:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B4DEE3E.C10A666E@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:36:46 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran Cc: Joseph Mallett , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: <20010711122814.D3021-100000@Aphex.NewGold.NET> <3B4C481B.D817A2B8@iowna.com> 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 Bill Moran 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. DNSUPDAT: You DHCP server fixes up your DNS, so that your "FILESERVER1" is always "FILESERVER1", regardless of its IP address. > > 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? Sure. You aren't supposed to find services with DNS, anyway: you are supposed to use SLP. See http://www.openslp.org/ ...I did the patches that made it so it would compile and run on FreeBSD, and they included them. You should also note the BSD license on the code... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message