Re: parallel computing, rsh, and DHCP environment?
In <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.05.9904090848470.17876-100000@weck.brokersys.com>, on
04/09/99
at 08:52 AM, Jonathan Guthrie <jguthrie@brokersys.com> said:
>Of course it is! If the LAN was mostly static, then I'd suggest using the
>/etc/hosts files on each computer, but if things are going to change with
>any frequency at all, then you'd probably want to set up a name server on
>one of the computers and set up the others to refer to that so that you
>don't have to change the configuration of each computer when you change the
>address of one of them.
OK, but if the addresses change occasionally, then it would still be a mess
even with setting up a DNS, yes? (given that the hosts file needs IP
addresses?)
Perhaps I'm simply stuck with making the best of a bad situation ... :(
Out of curiosity, do DHCP-administered addresses change only when a lease
expires without renewal? (These machines are not allowed to stay up
constantly.)
Kenward
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