Re: apt: Uses bogus ftp password on ftp:// urls
And thus spake Rob Browning, on Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 11:27:12AM -0500:
> Florian Hinzmann <f.hinzmann@public.uni-hamburg.de> writes:
>
> > The problem with my hostname is: I don't have one. ;)
> > I only get dynamic ip numbers when dialing up.
> > IMHO there is a big lack of support for dynamic ip
> > in many programs. I try to figure out how to set
> > up my Linux box with dynamic ip correctly, but there
> > seems to be no official, no right way to do it.
>
> Same here. If you have a network card installed and "ifconfiged"
> (even if you don't use it for anything), it makes life a little
> easier. I ended up installing bind in a forwarding config (since via
> caching and other tricks it also makes name lookups more reasonable
> across the board), and then listed my localmachine in /etc/hosts as:
>
> 192.168.1.1 myhostname.localhost myhostname
>
> where the 192 address is bound to my network card with ifconfig. I
> chose "localhost" as my domain just because the default bind
> configuration actually sets that up as a domain, and I was too lazy to
> do anything else (and yes, I know it's ugly, but it seems to work).
>
> This setup allows me to *completely* ignore my dynamic address. So
> far this hasn't presented any new problems, and it solved a *bunch* of
> other ones.
>
> There may be a simpler approach that doesn't require a network card,
> but at $20 for a cheap card and $40 for one of the fastest 10/100's,
> it wouldn't be worth worrying about for me.
Yes, there is a simpler approach: the 'dummy' network device.
Try modprobe dummy; ifconfig dummy0 myhostname.localhost
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