[luau] dhcp-146-41

[W. Wayne Liauh]

I thought about posting a comment asking if anyone in this forum has 
ever used RedHat 8.0 on a machine with RoadRunner without an external 
firewall, but decided against it, as doing this would have been too 
tasteless, even to someone as gross as I.

I had a dhcp server installed at home a few years ago.  It had been 
working continuously for over one year and half until I decided to 
change the kernel.  This is a great testimonial to the stability of 
Linux.  Although this was based on a beta version of dhcp, I believe the 
architecture still stays pretty much the same.

One of the key features of dhcp, as far as I was concerned, is that the 
ip address is temporary which will expire upon disconnection or be 
renewed after a pre-set period of time (with a new ip), depending on the 
server configuration.

I believe many cable modem users will not be thrilled when they realize 
that their computers, instead of having a changing ip, are actually 
assigned a permanent hostname.  Of course, our local dhcp experts are 
telling me that having a permanent hostname don't make no difference, 
and are implicitly accusing me of spreading FUD. You make your own call.



Kevin Goad wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>It's not only Redhat that changes the Hostname. I used to have that
>problem when I first installed Mandrake 8.0 until I manually entered my
>own hostname.  To even the score I recall playing around with snort one
>time and sniffing packets from my XP box when I came across a name
>something like this, mycomputername(somenumbers).hawaii.rr.com.  It
>concerned me for a while that my computers name was exposed to the
>outside, that Roadrunner knew it and used it to identify me, but then I
>figured with two firewalls I shouldn't worry too much.
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