On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Steven Van Tilburg wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>>
>> That's still odd, but the most critical (to me) problem has been solved --
>> the computer was assigned a different address by DHCP, so "news" no longer
>> pointed to this machine. I have _got_ to whip that router into shape. How
>> can I assign names to dynamically-generated addresses?
>
> Depending on which flavor of router you have, there's a way to assign static
> IPs to the DHCP table, usually by attaching the IP address to the devices MAC
> address.
Yeah, mine supports that _if_ you don't fat-finger something so it can't
happen happens (maybe the MAC address is sent to a out-of-netmask typoed
address?), and never shows up (only active rules show up) so you can delete
it.
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