Comments on: Why I Prefer Linux- It’s The Tools

By: new back

new back — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:16:44 +0000

Jason, that is only due specific environment. You can have your own dns servers or actually have external addresses for every computer. Myself, I never have anything natted or internal networks. I see no reason as I have been given enough ip addresses.

I agree with you, what you describe is what most of the people have.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:39:07 +0000

@newback:
No, because we’re dealing in Private Addresses, not Public ones.

DDNS (at least, traditionally) asks an external server to tell it what it’s IP address is from the outside world, and from the outside world, they’d all only ever return 1 IP.

By: new back

new back — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:56:32 +0000

Wouldn’t using ddns work as well pretty nicely?

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 09:22:36 +0000

If you have Ubuntu Feisty on your machines, avahi is enabled by default, so you can just use yourhostname.local addresses.

By: http-jjongsma.idproxy.net-

http-jjongsma.idproxy.net- — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:18:30 +0000

I second the comment about avahi. Except for my public-facing compute r (which is a static IP because i forward some ports to it from the router), all my others just use avahi so I can ssh between them with computername.local and not have to worry about setting up the static IP correctly. This has the added benefit that you don’t have to remember any IP addresses or worry about a /etc/hosts file or anything like that — it just works.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:08:01 +0000

@Timo Zimmerman- It’s against the law to use these tools even on your own local network, eh? Glad I don’t live in Germany then.

By: Timo Zimmermann

Timo Zimmermann — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:49:06 +0000

if you would live in Germany you would be acting against the new law (at least how everyone think it works) that says “don’t use hacker tools like nmap” – you should post a disclaimer that this is not a suitable solution for everyone *scnr*

By: Michael Greb

Michael Greb — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:27:55 +0000

You might also concider something like avahi. With avahi running on all of my Linux boxes, and Apple mDNSresponder stuffs on the other couple of OS X boxes, I’ve gone back to dhcp for all of the IPs on my lan save one that needs some ports forwarded to it. Plus, I don’t have to worry about updating /etc/hosts on each box all the time o/.

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