[mythtv-users] Static IP vs. DHCP

[Brian Wood]

Brian Wood wrote:

> 
> If you are using "private" (RFC 1918) addresses, and want to use names
> and not numerical addresses, you have to use either a "private" DNS
> server, /etc/hosts files or even NIS (sometimes called YP or "yellow
> pages". The only way to protect against failure would be to use multiple
> servers or methods.
> 
> To do DNS properly you should have a least two servers on totally
> different network segments, but even a lot of ISPs do not follow that rule.
> 
> If you are using "real" addresses there are several outfits that will do
> DNS for you very cheaply or totally free. There are even outfits that
> will do DNS if you have a dynamic IP address from your ISP.
> 
> The time to query an off-site DNS server for a single lookup is minimal,
> assuming a reasonably fast network connection. You could run a
> caching-only DNS server to reduce the time for subsequent lookups.
> 
> But in any case I doubt that many Myth systems suffer from problems with
> machine addressing, there are just too many ways to do it easily.
> 
> beww

Sorry for the dup, mail server problems :-(

beww