Hey Carl, On Sat, 2021-06-26 at 19:16 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: > I'm looking for advice on haveing some boxes to have both dynamic and > static IPs.
Why use a static IP at all? We have often enough seen people use static addresses for the wrong reasons. Consider using only DHCP and (a) use a hostname to access the device. In the end, memorizing some- service.lan is more reliable than 192.168.1.149. You may think differently, but let's see what you say after not having logged into the box for half a year - do you still know the address without looking it up? However, you may still recall a good hostname. (b) use a deterministic DHCP server like dnsmasq. It always tries to assign the same IP addresses to the same devices (instead of numbering them sequentially based on their appearance like cheap routers often do). Using (a), (b) or (a)+(b) doesn't require you to have a static IP at all. Best, Dominik _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
