Okay, so one of my buddies has an Xserve. It's a very nice machine and all but he changed isps and nothing seemed to function anymore. He then emailed tech support at Apple. Premium tech support even and the result is this email that I have provided a link to. This is a real email....very wierd indeed.
When I was setting up OS X Server at the office (not on an XServe tho) and I saw this notice come up asking me if I wanted to use a temp or permanent IP. It said to use (dangit I can't recall what app) to change the IP before you "move it".
By ISP do you mean it's on Dialup or on a dedicated line (like DSL, T1, etc.)?
Can you get it to the point where you can plug the old IP back in? If so, play with the Server apps and see if you can find it (wish I could remember which one it was - I haven't been to the office nor seen the server since my operation about a month ago)
I gave up and reformatted myself since I was just playing with it and nothing important was on it.
It's not my machine....but I just find that retarded! It's a server OS that can't handle Ip changes. Bah@that....then it's not a server OS. Win98 could do that =/ I don't understand how it's based upon unix and can't do a simple task like that.
Linux threw up a hairball a few times on me when I've done that - what with DNS, Virtual Hosts and Sendmail (ESPECIALLY sendmail! oy!) so it's not all that suprising to me...
Servers are really not meant to be "portable".
They just need to make it easier to change the IP tho (before and after the fact) - I donno, like booting up in Single User mode and make the corrections if you can't boot to the GUI?
Hmmm...
I wonder if a search 'n replace on the IP number can be done from the UNIX shell prompt...
Not that I know how to do that - but that's an idea...
