At 06/05/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...then back to 02 when the router decided that "FTP-Server" should be on 02.
Wouldn't it be easier to just give your server a static IP? True,
there are disadvantages because of the way XP handles things
(assuming the server is running XP). For whatever reason, XP won't
let you assign a static IP and a dynamic default gateway and DNS
server address. Those items have to be entered manually. That can
occasionally cause problems if your ISP decides to change DNS servers
without alerting you beforehand.
If you do set a static address, I would set it to an address higher
up in your IP range -- like .50 -- just in case you have a quirky
router that might attempt to dynamically assign that IP to another
machine. A friend has a Linksys router and keeps his game server in
the DMZ with a static IP; he'd occasionally have that problem until I
suggested he give it a higher IP number.
Just a stab in the dark, but the router spontaneously reassigning
your server to a different IP could have happened during lease
renewal, since it was the only machine on at the time. I've never
noticed my Linksys router doing that, but it may; I rarely pay any
attention to the current LAN IP -- or the WAN IP for that matter.
--
Tony Lowe, The HapMaster
What if the hokey-pokey really is what it's all about?
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