[App_rpt-users] Static IP

[Angelo Glorioso]

When you are GIVEN free access with static ips, you don't question.!!

add that to the list.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan D. Boyle" <bdboyle at bdboyle.com>
To: <app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Static IP


> let's see...why would you use static instead of dhcp?
>
> 1. one less item to try and figure out once set.
> 2. single point/simple configuration.
> 3. network is subnetted more finely than a /24 with firewalls between 
> segments
> 4. if someone is having difficulties figuring out how to config an ip on a 
> server, sending them into the bowels of a router to hardwire a mac address 
> (and where to find it in the multiciplicity of web front ends)... it's 
> probably easier to nail the server down to get it working than to figure 
> out advanced router settings.  simple is good.  in making things more 
> flexible, sometime the stuff under the hood adds complexity on the other 
> side.
>
> in 20-something years of running everything from a class a network 
> (12.x.x.x), through a class b (159.70.x.x) to having my own registered 
> full class c,
> in my experience, i've found it more reliable to set servers on a fixed 
> address, reserving dhcp for the transients.  but, that's me.  saves a 
> step, is predictable, and less painful.  but, that's me.
> --
> Bryan
> Sent from my iPhone 5...small
> keyboard, big fingers...please
> forgive misspellings...
>
>
>
> On Oct 18, 2013, at 15:32, "KP4TR (Ramon Gonzalez)" 
> <kp4tr.ramon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> A little off topic, but there must be a good reason as to why you want to 
>> use static ip. Not that its wrong, but if you do, there are implications 
>> and you have to understand them and also set accordingly other settings 
>> like your default route and your dns servers.
>>
>> Obviously you didnt set your dns servers and/or didn't set your default 
>> route.
>>
>> If you know what this is, fix accordingly. If you don't use DHCP as it is 
>> by default set in most linux distributions, and fix the port forwards on 
>> your router so Allstar forwards to the right IP, and get a router that 
>> can do IP/DHCP reservations by MAC address to assign the same IP to your 
>> Allstar box.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Oct 18, 2013, at 1:07 PM, Richard Szajkowski <va3rzs at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok having a problem with static IP
>>>
>>> I set it via set up , rebooted the system
>>> Did a ifconfig and I see the right info
>>>
>>> But for some reason I can't get to the outside world
>>>
>>> Some one said I needed to do a DNS update , I can't find that info,
>>>
>>> Thanks for all your help
>>>
>>> Richard Szajkowski
>>>
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