[ale] AT&T Broadband and Linux

[Venky Narayanan]

All,
I had almost the same problem as Chris had. My Linux router has been up for
almost 5 months and we had the same IP from Media One till last Thursday. I
noticed the IP Change when my Website which is run on the Linux router
wasn't showing up with IP reference I made. After checking out with Linux
box I came to know that my IP has been changed.
I made relevant changes on http.conf (for ServerName IP), restarted httpd
and checked out with the Website and it doesn't seem working. I restarted
the Linux box and it started working. Now I made the ServerName as 127.0.0.1
instead of the dynamic IP address.
My question is what changes should I have made for my Website to work
properly instead of rebooting?
I am running Turbolinux Kernel version 2.2.14-3 on a 486.

TIA,
Venky.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Chris
To: ale at ale.org
Egolf
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 11:12 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] AT&T Broadbrand and Linux


Just wondering if anyone else one this list has had problems w/ the
MediaOne/AT&T Broadband service in regards to DHCP.  I've had the
service for close to 6 months and I know of others that have had it for
more than a year.  Even though we knew we were getting a dynamic IP
through DHCP, if you had to bring the machine down or simply reboot it,
chances were good that you'd get the same IP number...some people had
the same one for over a year, even though it was 'dynamic'.

Recently however, everytime I've had to reboot, my IP # has changed.
Others I know have had the same problem.  Since I need to access my
machine remotely, I've stopped doing this -- no more kernel upgrades I
guess.  My understanding w/ DHCP is that you are supposed to get the
same IP again if it's still available.  I find it hard to believe that
when my IP address is released during a reboot that it's distributed to
someone else in that short amount of time.  Has anyone else experienced
this or have an explanation?

Slightly OT, with this problem, I've been wondering about using some
sort of dynamic DNS service.  I've seen various different ones -- some
free, others that were fee based.  Has anyone on the list had good luck
using any of these?

Thanks.
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