Changeset 96d63c4

Timestamp:

04/12/2006 08:28:56 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/parallelism, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008

Children:

dd7ed7b

Parents:

9d2bf097

Message:

Rewrote section explaining IP Addresses.
Thanks Bryan Kadzban and Bruce Dubbs.
Resolves Ticket 1663.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7501 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter07/hosts.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -40 +40 @@
       <para>April 12, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[jhuntwork] - Rewrote section explaining IP Addresses.
+          Thanks Bryan Kadzban and Bruce Dubbs. Resolves Ticket 1663.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust some redundant text in Berkeley DB page.</para>

chapter07/hosts.xml

@@ -24 +24 @@
 
   <para>If a network card is to be configured, decide on the IP address,
-  FQDN, and possible aliases for use in the
+  fully-qualified domain name (FQDN), and possible aliases for use in the
   <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file. The syntax is:</para>
 
@@ -35 +35 @@
   are:</para>
 
-<screen><literal>       Class Networks
-        A     10.0.0.0
-        B     172.16.0.0 through 172.31.0.255
-        C     192.168.0.0 through 192.168.255.255</literal></screen>
+<screen><literal>Private Network Address Range      Normal Prefix
+10.0.0.1 - 10.255.255.254           8
+172.x.0.1 - 172.x.255.254           16
+192.168.y.1 - 192.168.y.254         24</literal></screen>
 
-  <para>A valid IP address could be 192.168.1.1. A valid FQDN for this
-  IP could be www.linuxfromscratch.org (not recommended because this is
-  a valid registered domain address and could cause domain name server
-  issues).</para>
+  <para>x can be any number in the range 16-31. y can be any number in
+  the range 0-255.</para>
 
-  <para>Even if not using a network card, an FQDN is still required.
+  <para>A valid private IP address could be 192.168.1.1. A valid FQDN for this
+  IP could be lfs.example.org.</para>
+
+  <para>Even if not using a network card, a valid FQDN is still required.
   This is necessary for certain programs to operate correctly.</para>