On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:22:32AM +0000, Stuart wrote: > 2009/2/17 Paul M Foster <paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: <snip> > > Maintaining identical development, staging and live environments is > one of the key components of reliable, repeatable and streamlined > development, testing and deployment, but if you're happy with what > you've got then by all means continue as before. I was just offering a > best practice suggestion that would solve your current problem and > likely some you'll encounter in the future. All agreed. That is the safest alternative. Will I do it that way? Not so much. Yes, I know I reap the consequences. <snip> > > Most DHCP servers can reserve an IP address for a specific MAC address > such that that IP always gets given to that NIC. Actually, that's what happens in this case. But I could change that IP one day and forget to hack the hosts file. I prefer to treat it as non-fixed. <snip> > > > Really, Stuart, you should try not to be so annoyed at people who don't > > appear to know as much as you believe you do. ;-} > > I'm not annoyed, I'm mildly frustrated. You did not respond to my > initial suggestion in the other thread but continued to discuss the > problem with others. I apologise if my tone came across as annoyed, > but it's polite to respond to others when they communicate with you. All this because I didn't answer you on another thread? Wow. I typically don't reply to suggestions whose nature I'm already aware of as an alternative. Sorry about that. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
