{OT} DNS & Mount Volume
{OT} DNS & Mount Volume
- Subject: {OT} DNS & Mount Volume
- From: Phi Sanders <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:30:30 -0500
The DNS name of the IP addresses you get via DHCP are controlled by
the ISP providing the access... In other words, not you. Therefore
you can't decide what to call a machine at that IP address.
Now, if you're using NAT then the router (or AirPort) is at the ISP's
DHCP-supplied address and your machines are on the "internal" network.
You could manually assign IPs to each machine, run a DNS server on the
same internal network and be able to specify "english" names for each
machine...
But that's a lot of work when you've really already solved the problem
by assigning manual addresses to each machine at the router (airport)
Just use those IPs in whatever scripts run INSIDE the LAN. From outside
the LAN (from work to home, for example) you'll have to "punch holes" in
your LAN's firewall.
But this is way off-topic and I'm stretching my meager expertise to the
breaking point.
~Phi
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Phi Sanders
"And now, back to your regularly scheduled reality."
On 2/11/01, Michelle Steiner {email@hidden} said the following :
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On 2/11/01 2:34 AM, Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>>> Servers really should be given fixed IP addresses.
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>>> You can do this with AirPort, but according to the documentation you
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thereby
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>>> give up certain other features (such as simultaneous access to one
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internet
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>>> account by multiple users on the AirPort network). Hence my dilemma.
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>> What do they mean by "one internet account"? I hope they don't mean one
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>> IP address.
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>One IP address is how I understand it, although I should have referred to
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>access "by multiple machines".
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That's what I thought you had meant.
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>But as you pointed out privately, NAT may in
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>fact work even with a fixed range of IP addresses.
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I think someone else did that; I don't recall doing that.
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The reason I'm concerned is that I'm going to be moving soon, and I don't
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know whether I'll be able to get more than one static IP address. I want
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to connect two machines via Airport so I can eliminate some of the
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tangles of wiring; one or two other machines (inlcuding the michelle.org
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email server), as well as the printers, will have to use wired ethernet
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regardless.
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--Michelle