[UCLA-LUG] static IP's in dorms

[Byron Ellis]

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Chan, Michael J wrote:

> WHAT!!!!
> 
> I was planning on DNSing linuxvalue.com to a box... bleh... that's jacked
> up...

Its not really "jacked" at all-- their reasoning should be very simple.
UCLA and by extension the STC is *not* an ISP (in the traditional sense)  
therefore they should not be in the business of providing things to make
servers happy, like static IPs. DHCP is a no-brainer for them (I was in
the dorms when EVERYBODY had a static IP, it was an administrative
nightmare-- my roommate at the time had a dead line for 10 weeks or so
'cause they didn't get around to him) and it gives them some degree of
legal coverage (read: Sony can't sue them as easily). 

So, yes, they are doing it SPECIFICALLY so you can't DNS
www.linuxvalue.com to your dorm machine, but you know what? I'd do the
same thing in their position.

	-Agreeing with "The Man"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Boseant [mailto:jb@entrada.cs.ucla.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 5:09 PM
> To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> Subject: [UCLA-LUG] static IP's in dorms
> 
> 
> I just talked with STC and they informed me that there will be no static
> IPs given out this year without an academic reason (i.e. need petition
> from prof.) in the dorms.  What the hell?? 
> 
> thought i'd let everyone coming back to the dorms know before they got
> back...good luck
> 
> -justin
> 
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