[ale] Multi-label names

[leam hall]

Only use static IPs, except for phones and such.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Scott Plante via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> Do you/others set static IPs on boxes these days, other than the DHCP server
> and/or firewall itself? I was taught to make pretty much everything DHCP,
> and just set a static reservation in the DHCP server for the boxes where you
> don't want the addresses to change. That way, you have one place to manage
> all the addresses.
>
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> ________________________________
> From: "DJ-Pfulio via Ale" <ale at ale.org>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 9:36:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Multi-label names
>
> I don't have any answers.
>
> First, Ubuntu/debian doesn't use /etc/sysconfig/ anything. That's a
> RHEL-family thing, I think.
>
> Running a non-LTS is crazy, IMHO.  In 17.10, network setups changed.
> They've added a new middleman - beyond resolvconf. NetPlan is the name.
> Sorry, I haven't looked at it at all, since no LTS has it.
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MigratingToNetplan might be helpful. Someone
> decided that yaml is easier than the interfaces file.
>
> I purge all network manager stuff and either have static IPs or use DHCP
> reservations from the network DHCP server. Find it is easier for my
> needs. I understand that network manager is better now than when it was
> when I had all sorts of issues with it.
>
> I've also found that purging avahi is helpful. It gets in the middle of
> name resolution stuff - I usually see issues with samba that are solved
> by NOT having avahi installed.
>
> But I really don't know anything.
>
>
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