[UCLA-LUG] static IP's in dorms

Joshua Barratt jbarratt@ucla.edu
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:32:01 -0700


Well, if the frequency is anything like the last two years, it's very very low. I once went 7 months without an IP change -- even over christmas break.

    --Josh
> What might be related to Linux-discrimination is setting the frequency
> of dynamic IP assignment to be so high that you can't simply reboot
> and expect the same IP address.  The effect is that it becomes more
> difficult to maintain publicly available servers (eg. DNS takes time
> to propagate).
> 
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