localhost or LAN addresses in /etc/hosts
Bart Silverstrim
bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Tue Dec 16 13:52:39 UTC 2008
Derek Broughton wrote:
> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>
>>> Now if you let a Router set your
>>> ip numbers it will do it but not the same way all the time. You add
>>> another item and ALL ip numbers can change.
>> Depends on the router. The part that differentiates how it works is
>> the DHCP server software. You CAN tell your DHCP server, if it
>> supports it, to always give a specific MAC address a specific IP
>> address just like you can configure it to hand out an address for a
>> specified period of time, and DNS servers are able to tie a specific
>> record to a specific IP.
>>
>> If your router is bargain basement then yeah, it'll seem random if it
>> lacks features. But it can most certainly be done, and in many cases
>> if the feature is there the user just never bothered to configure it
>> so they're using the defaults.
>
> Not to mention, most DHCP servers will reassign exactly the same address
> to a device every time it asks, provided the address pool is large
> enough that it doesn't need to recycle them. This isn't guaranteed, but
> it is extremely likely.
Don't rely on it though!
I've had plenty of cases where DHCP servers will goof with it at an
inopportune moment. It depends on the implementation.
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