Odd aliasing question

[DAve]

Vince wrote:
> DAve wrote:
>> I've looked but found no examples to give me confidence. While I have 
>> lots of servers running alias IPs the IPs are all on the same network. 
>> I've have been informed by my network admin that we will need to 
>> change the IPs of our legacy name servers (we are just dragging them 
>> along for a time, new name servers are up and domains are being moved 
>> to them).
>>
>> Currently the IP of ns2 is 208.252.191.2, this needs to change to 
>> 65.123.104.25. The network admin is telling me he will have the router 
>> for that NOC cage handle both IPs no problems. However I need to 
>> continue answering the old IP until clients can get their equipment 
>> reconfigured.
>>
> This will work fine.
> 
>> Can I alias 208.252.191.2 once I change the NIC's IP to 65.123.104.25 
>> with a default route of 65.123.104.1?
>>
> yes,
>> What netmask would use for the alias line?
>>
> Whatever you currently use for those IPs.

Well whaddaya know. Seems non intuitive to me but I'll give it a shot 
and use 0xffffffff same as any other alias.

> 
>> This seems not possible to me, but you can learn something new 
>> everyday...
>>
> I've been supporting servers for about 10 years and I'm still learning 
> :) Thats why its still fun.
> 

I don't know about fun, interesting for certain ;^)

Thanks,

DAve


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