[LON-CAPA-admin] MSU IP address change

[Martin Siegert]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 04:58:56PM -0400, Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Just as a heads up.
> 
> 
> The msu loncapa servers will be changing their IP address sometime
> tommorrow between 4:30 and 8:00
> 
> The 1.0.0 release (which should be announced tommorrow) will install a
> correct hosts.tab file so that your computers will continue to contact
> the msu servers.
> 
> If you don't wish to install 1.0 and want to continue to talk to the
> msu servers, you will need to replace all of the lines in
> /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab that mention msu or physnet with the lines below.
> 
> You will then need to restart both the webserver and loncapa daemons
> /etc/init.d/httpd restart
> /etc/init.d/loncontrol stop
> /etc/init.d/loncontrol start
> 
> 
> 
> The GOOD hosts.tab entries are:
> 
> msul1:msu:library:s10.lite.msu.edu:35.9.119.110
> msua1:msu:access:s1.lite.msu.edu:35.9.119.101
> msua2:msu:access:s2.lite.msu.edu:35.9.119.102
> msua3:msu:access:s3.lite.msu.edu:35.9.119.103
> msua4:msu:access:s4.lite.msu.edu:35.9.119.104
> msua5:msu:access:s5.lite.msu.edu:35.9.119.105
> pnetl1:physnet:library:s12.lite.msu.edu:35.9.119.112
> 
> 
> Feel free to contact me if you have trouble doing this.

Hmm. Why does hosts.tab list IP addresses at all?
Shouldn't this be handled by the DNS?
(in which case you can change IP addresses at will without breaking
anything).

Just my $0.02

Cheers,
Martin

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