Re: WLAN router doesn't provide fix IP addresses
Thanks a lot for the answer, I think I'll look deeper into avahi.
Le 31 oct. 2014 à 09:45, "Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl@jorgensen.org.uk> a écrit :
> Hi
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 09:28:33AM +0100, B. M. wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I have a problem with my (w)lan setup. We use telephone and
>> internet over the cable network and the company gives us a wlan
>> modem for free. Unfortunately this modem doesn't allow me to specify
>> fix IPs in the internal network for all of our machines.
>
> Well - even if it doesn't, surely it allows you to specify which
> *range* of IP addresses should be used for DHCP?
>
> There is nothing wrong with configuring a server with a fixed IP
> address (=not use DHCP client), as long as you use the correct
> network, netmask and default gateway.
>
>> Nevertheless I setup an owncloud server on one machine (which is
>> somehow our "server" but not always running), including SSL
>> encryption with a self-signed certificate for its IP address. That
>> worked well for a couple of months because the IP addresses didn't
>> change (although they were not fixed).
>
> Oh. certificates for IP addresses is a new one on me :-)
>
>> Now due to a technical problem our modem got replaced all of the IP
>> addresses changed. (I did expect that for sometime in the
>> future... but not so early...)
>>
>> Since it's impossible to manually define the IP addresses, I've a
>> problem. Of course I could create a new certificate, put it on all
>> other machines and adjust all settings (owncloud server address...);
>> but that's quite an hassle.
>
> Do the machines use avahi (or mdns? I'm actually not sure of the name,
> but having libnss-mdns installed and "mdns4" mentioned in
> /etc/nsswitch.conf would indicate so).
>
> If so, you should be able to use "${hostname}.local" instead of an IP
> address, and the multicast DNS resolution would sort things out.
>
>> So I wanted to ask if there are other possibilities? I can define
>> one or two DNS server in the modem's config. Would it work to setup
>> my main machine (which is not always running) as an internal DNS
>> server and use the hostnames instead of the IP addresses?
>
> That is also a possibility. But if it is only for facilitating a
> single server, then it's overkill. And it adds a single point of
> failure too: you would not be able to resolve IP addresses while the
> machine is down.
>
> If you already own/run a domain, you can also add a A record in the
> DNS for this to point to it - e.g. "owncloud.example.com IN A
> 192.168.0.45".
>
> Using an entry in /etc/hosts is also an option.
>
> Hope this helps
> --
> Karl E. Jorgensen
>
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