Re: Re: Re: F8 Network Woe

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 15:58 +1030, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
> >> I can plug a box into my network, give it the IP 192.168.1.6, but not
> >> bother to put any entries for it on the DNS server nor any hosts file.
> >> It'll still be useable on the network, but no other machine will be able
> >> to dig, host, or nslookup, it.  And it won't be able to do some of those
> >> checks on itself.  Being able to ping it would depend on its
> >> configuration. 
> 
> Aaron Konstam:
> > What you are saying is true except the machine should respond to its
> > own ip address. It is certainly responding when he tries to set up the
> > network. 
> 
> That depends on what you mean by "responding".  dig, host, or nslookup
> *can* fail on a machine researching its own address.
> 
> -- 
> [tim bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
> 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386
> 
> Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.
> 
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> I read messages from the public lists.
> 
We already determined that 192.168.1.6 is not the machine's address,
> 
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