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I want to maintain one computer on a network with a static IP. I have no access to the router, so I cannot reserve the address there.
My question is; if I do this, is it possible the router will assign the same IP address to another computer?
lee
It sounds like you want a server to always have the same address. I think that is too low level. Why not just require a specific computer name, such as
myapp-server. Then the school could either name the servermyapp-serveror just do DNS translation; either by creating an ALIAS record in there DNS server or by changing the LMHOSTS file on each client.I’ve used
DNS mappingin many production environments. It makes life really simple for the developers and the system admins. Every admin will know how to add a DNS host name to their network. And worst case, if no real network admin you can always hardwire IP addresss in LMHOSTS files.