Re: gethostname returns loginname on "Pather Server" version
Re: gethostname returns loginname on "Pather Server" version
- Subject: Re: gethostname returns loginname on "Pather Server" version
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 12:29:16 -0600
On 2/7/04 11:54 AM, "Allan Nathanson" <email@hidden> wrote:
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But, before you go down this path... Why do you need the hosts IP
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address in the first place? Do you really think you can do something
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useful with it? What do you do if the address you get is on a private
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network behind a NAT?
You're needing to move people into a different subnet, and you want to
change the primary IP without having to walk all over creation, and you
don't have the SuperCaptainCoolGuy switches that let you do VLANs.
You're finally documenting who has what IP address.
You're writing software to make it easier to change IP addresses on managed
clients.
You're assigning different network rights to IP subnets, and for those
machines, you're moving them from DHCP to Manual IPs.
You can do a lot with an IP address for good or evil. If you're working
within the NAT, then that argument doesn't apply. What I don't get is why
Apple has made this so hard to bloody do in OS X, when I could do it with
AppleScript in OS 9 with relative ease. OS X has a hundred times the remote
capabilities of 9, yet changing an IP address setting without spending a
couple hundred dollars is almost bloody impossible.
What's the point of an advanced framework if you can't provide simple tools
to work with it?
john
--
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Jeff La Grua
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