O$ - Determine if machine is using DHCP

[Stefan Csomor]

Hi Steve

looks like a case for Bonjour ?

http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/bonjour.html

what server platforms are you using win32 or mac ?

Best,

Stefan


On 03.04.09 23:26, "Steve Farmer" <hts at hts.com.au> wrote:

> HI Clifford
>
> We are dealing with Bed and Breakfast owners here, trying to install ODB
> on their internal networks.  DNS is not an option unfortunately
>
> Regards
> Steve
>
> CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
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>> Alex Clay wrote:
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>>> On Apr 3, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Doug Easterbrook wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> out of interest, why does it matter (or whats the business purpose) of
>>>> how the machine gets its ip?
>>>>
>>>> you can get static addresses from DHCP bound to a mac address or
>>>> dynamic ones.
>>>>
>>> It matters if you want to detect that your user is running DHCP on their
>>> database server and advise them against that practice (causes headache
>>> re-configuring clients with the server's IP changes).
>>>
>>
>> It wouldn't matter if you had DNS on the network and pointed the clients
>> to the host name rather than the IP address of the db server. DNS was
>> invented to deal with that very problem. As Doug pointed out, you could
>> also provision the same IP address to a given host based upon the MAC
>> address. When we set up a network, typically, there is only one machine
>> with a static IP address, the machine that is serving dhcp requests.
>> Every other machine on the network can and should be
>> dynamically-assigned, even if we're assigning the same IP address to
>> them every time.
>> - --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Clifford Ilkay
>> Dinamis
>> 1419-3266 Yonge St.
>> Toronto, ON
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>>
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