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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.idt.net!nntp.farm.idt.net!hq.idt.net!not-for-mail From: Parthiv Shah <parthiv@hq.idt.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Changing Server IP Addresses/DNS Addresses on BSDI Servers Date: 6 Apr 1997 14:41:33 GMT Organization: IDT Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5i8cmt$ijb@nnrp2.farm.idt.net> References: <3342B112.26FF@pps.pgh.pa.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: hq.idt.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961025] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6598 edit /etc/netstart change the field "ipaddr=" with proper ip. e.g. ipaddr=172.16.5.1 change the field "defroute=" with proper ip e.g. defroute=172.16.5.254 etc.. hoping you don't have to change netmask, else change netmask= field also.. than either reboot or ifconfig <interface> down; ifconfig <interface> <ipaddr> netmask <netmask>; ifconfig <interface> up where <interface> = your interface type look at field "iface=" in /etc/netstat or type "netstat -in" and look at the first field. <ipaddr> is your new ip address and <netmask> is again same as /etc/netstat "netmask=" field. Also change /etc/hosts with proper name and ip. Parthiv Tarek Z. El Mohamad <elmohama@pps.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me out with a fairly simple > problem I'm having with a BSDI server.. The server is currently > configured with a certain IP address and DNS address. How would I go > about changing these? Someone showed me once and I thought it was an > easy thing to do, but have forgotten since then. Any help would be > GREATLY appreciated!! Please e-mail me any help/suggestions to > elmohama@pps.pgh.pa.us <snip> -- Parthiv Shah Work: parthiv@corp.idt.net http://www.idt.net Personal: parthiv@netadmin.net http://www.netadmin.net