Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Local mail server

[Grant Taylor]

On 7/31/20 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Nit: DHCPv6 can be (and usually is) dynamic, but it doesn't have to
> be. It's entirely possible to have a static IP address that your OS
> (or firewall/router) acquires via DHCPv6 (or v4).  [I set up stuff
> like that all the time.]

Counter Nit:  That's still acquiring an address via /Dynamic/ Host 
Configuration Protocol (v6).  It /is/ a /dynamic/ process.

Static IP address has some very specific meaning when it comes to 
configuring TCP/IP stacks.  Specifically that you enter the address to 
be used, and it doesn't change until someone changes it in the 
configuration.

Either an IP address is statically entered -or- it's dynamic.

The fact that it's returning the same, possibly predictable, address is 
independent of the fact that it's a /dynamic/ process.



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