network admin, ip addresses for webserver

[Colin Law]

On 28 October 2014 19:06, Patrick Asselman <iceblink at seti.nl> wrote:
> On 2014-10-27 21:40, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 27 October 2014 20:35, Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Why is important for a server to use static ip address instead of DHCP?
>>> If it's behind a router, why not use that router's outward facing IP
>>> address, and then the router will *route* to that hostname?
>>
>>
>> Many (most?) routers require an IP address to be specified when
>> setting up port forwarding, so the server needs a fixed ip address.
>> Can your router take a host name instead?
>>
>
> My router allows one to set a preferred ip address for a particular computer
> (or rather: mac address).
> That way you can use port forwarding on the router as well as use DHCP on
> the server.

Is that not just a different way of assigning a fixed ip address to the PC?

Colin