22 Aug
2010
22 Aug
'10
3:13 a.m.
On 8/21/10 11:52 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
I can remember early network printers using bootp and the assuming that they could use that one ip address forever. today the printer will dhcp and advertise it's availability in the same broadcast domain and may well reregister it's name in dynamic dns if possible.
Funny... I remember printers only thinking that if they were going to get moved, they'd also likely get unplugged and get a new address after the move.
rfc 951 made no provision in the protocol for the recovery of an address. you may well get a new one but the old one is assigned forever until someone prunes the cruft
Owen