[ale] Static DHCP Addresses? Any reason to Avoid?

[Pete Hardie]

Unless something is expecting a device to have a different IP every 24
hours or such, it should work just fine.  I had to do this with my ReplayTV
DVRs, since they would lose their minds after the end of their DHCP lease


On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 9:38 PM Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Working with a local non-profit.
>
> They have a bunch of dumb devices on wifi, eg 3D printers.
>
> Supposedly one accesses them via mDNS, eg "Ender3.local".
>
> Which works less than 50% of the time on Windows or Linux boxes.   More
> often it doesn't find it.
>
> My instinct is to assign those MAC Addresses a permanent IP address in
> the DHCP on the main router.
>
> I've gotten some pushback eg "It works on my MAC", or "If windows wasn't
> so screwed up this would be fine".
>
> Which isn't too productive.
>
> ARE THERE any reasons not to make this problem go away by assigning a
> fixed IP?  Then mDNS would still work where it does now, and the rest of
> us can find the little buggers without playing hunt the wumpus.
>
> regards,
>
> Neal
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