RE: Changing hostname / IP address

Posted in 2004

Colin Bull — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:07:45 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Five Cats wrote > > >DNS contains a wonderful, underused facility called ALIAS records. > > It would be so wonderful if the site was using DNS. They are > not, hence > the problem! Most unixes have the facility of an IP alias that does this locally. In Tru64(RIP) it is - ifconfig nr0 alias 10.254.1.111 netmask 255.255.255.0 Used for failover servers. No changes needed on clients > > Colin Bull c.bull@videonetworks.com sending to informix-list