Thx Tim, you have added to the reigning consensus, I appreciate your time to reply, jackc...<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Tim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Allegedly, on or about 30 November 2012, Jack Craig sent:<br>
> Pls consider a configuration with a single host providing NFS4<br>
> /home directories for other hosts in a 6 host cluster. Further,<br>
> openldap is on the same host to provide for authentication<br>
> on all 6.<br>
><br>
> the architect says its ok to configure all hosts w/DHCP,<br>
> but i see the ip changing every day or 2 (many reboots due setup).<br>
><br>
> I am a huge fan of static ip for servers, but what do i know?! :(<br>
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You want servers to have the same IPs, always. That can be done by<br>
configuring the computers, individually. For clients, it's usually not<br>
too much of an issue whether their IP changes. And it's usually easiest<br>
to configure clients at the server. That way, you only have to<br>
configure things on one machine (everything controlled on your server).<br>
<br>
For the clients, there are two alternatives to completely randomly<br>
assigned dynamic addresses: Tying them to the same IPs, always. Or, it<br>
may be good enough to simply make them far less likely to change IPs.<br>
For cases where it's merely a question of convenience, and you don't<br>
really need to fix them, just set your DHCP server so that default lease<br>
times are long enough that a client will get the same IP as last time,<br>
by default.<br>
<br>
If you use Samba, particularly with some actual Windows client machines,<br>
you may find it works more smoothly if the client machines always use<br>
the same IPs. SMB can be very slow at dealing with changes to addresses<br>
of machines.<br>
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp<br>
Linux 3.6.7-4.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 20 19:40:01 UTC 2012 x86_64<br>
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All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point<br>
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the<br>
public lists.<br>
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