On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've posted details to the FreeBSD -stable and -current mailing list,
>>>> but the simple summary is that 'ifconfig <dev> -alias' with no ip
>>>> specific'd literally erases all IPs on that device, leaving the
>>>> server running 'un-networked' ... :(
>>>>
>>> Good lord.
>>
>>
>> Ya well, its not something I'm particularly proud about ...
>>
>> Stupid question for someone running Linux ... is this standard behaviour
>> that I've been lucky never to hit before, or is this something that
>> Linux deals with slightly more intelligently?
>
> I used to have a script on my remote server that I was running in BG before
> to touch the network, that script was bringing up the network if was down
> for more then 2 minutes. My server is now hosted in my house and I do not
> need it anymore, I changed it with the no-ip script :-)
Until now, I didn't think I'd need such a think :( In almost 12 years of
networking, that is one thing that I've never done, unconfigured the main
IP ;(
Then again, I think I've been lucky so far in that I've never done an 'rm
-rf /' either :)
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