network admin, ip addresses for webserver

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 07:58:00PM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> 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?
> 
Yes, but it means you don't have to reconfigure the PC to give itself
a static address.  You leave the PC configuration exactly as it was
picking up whatever the router gives it (plus the DNS, gateway and
default route), much simpler in many ways.

-- 
Chris Green