JJZolx;504581 Wrote: > I would seriously reexamine your need to use static IP addresses. For > some odd reason, people seem to believe using static IPs solves some > unknown networking issues. Using DHCP allows you to reconfigure your > entire network in a matter of minutes, in one central location. The > only thing using static IP addresses can really overcome is the failure > of the DHCP server itself. > I think most people uses static IP addresses because they use IP-address when accessing the machine or have a local hosts file on each machine with IP<->Hostname mapping. None of the home routers I've used has been able to reliably handle DNS requests on the internal network so it's possible to find a machine with hostname. It usually works if you only have Windows machines but in a mixed network with Windows, OSX and Linux you need something outside the cheap home router, at least that's my experience.
I'm personally using static IP's on my internal network for this reason and run a central dnsmasq server so I can have the static IP<->Hostname mapping in one place. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73714 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
