On 23/06/18 17:00, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Sat, 23 Jun 2018 16:43:24 +0100) it happened The Natural
> Philosopher  wrote in :
>
>> On 23/06/18 10:10, A. Dumas wrote:
>>> All the modem/routers I used in the last 10(?) years could do this. That
>>> way you are guaranteed of:
>>> - no conflicts
>>> - a one-time setup
>>> - a central administration
>> - No way to know waht IP addres the servers are on. Tpday.
>>
>>
>>> Now you only have to know the device's name. And yeah, your first
>>> argument probably stands, for you.
>>
>> Knowing its name don't help by and large since it wont be broadcast
>> anywhere.
>
> It won't be broadcast, but it is in my /etc/hosts at my workstation,
> and if needed easily copied to other things / computers.

And what guarantee is there that its IP adress will stay te same next
time it reboots a DHCP request?

I know where my servers are becuse they areon fixed IP addreesses so
hostr tables work - I could even set up DNS on te network...

DHCP is for client only machines - the smart phone the desktop and the
laptop. And vistors.




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