On a sunny day (Sat, 23 Jun 2018 18:36:00 +0000 (UTC)) it happened Martin
Gregorie  wrote in :

>On Sat, 23 Jun 2018 17:16:07 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> And what guarantee is there that its IP adress will stay te same next
>> time it reboots a DHCP request?
>>
>The hostname and IP address can be made static.
>
>The hostname is in /etc/hostname
>
>The IP address is generally part of the ethernet or wifi port
>configuration. File names and locations may vary between Linux distros
>and versions:
>
>- debian/Raspbian define the IP address,netmask and network gateway in
>  /etc/network/interfaces
>
>- Fedora (so also CentOS and RHEL) put it in
>  /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts in a file whose name starts with ifcfg-
>  and is followed by a system-defined name for the ethernet port
>
>- I can't comment about wifi because I don't use it.
>
>Once those are set on each host on your network, you can either
>distribute copies of /etc/hosts as Jan does, or you can run a local
>recursive DNS on any host on your network that runs 24/7. Either bind or
>unbound will do the job: I use bind. Any RPi model should be powerful
>enough to provide a DNS service for even a complex home or small office
>network. Doing it this way with standard Linux software means you don't
>have to fight with whatever proprietary DHCP system is on your router.

Indeed,
before I hosted my website with godaddy,
I had the name server running here too (bind), and sendmail.
That is a bit more difficult to configure.
I think the new nameservers use some encryption protocol?
It is on the todo list, if US imposes more trade tariffs towards Europe,
then I will sanction back by moving the domain registration to for example
Panama
and run the whole thing including nameserver here again, on raspberries.
This (raspi webserver) was a first step in that direction.
It was hit again:
...
202.70.136.130 - - [23/Jun/2018:15:57:26 +0000] "GET
/typo3/phpmyadmin/index.php HTTP/1.1" 404 542 "-" "Mozilla/5.0"
202.70.136.130 - - [23/Jun/2018:15:57:27 +0000] "GET /phpma/index.php HTTP/1.1"
404 531 "-" "Mozilla/5.0"
...

It _is_ some more work.
I have payed godaddy for a year, still plenty time to make a test domain
and switch over at the right moment.
Will let them know why too.

We will see.

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