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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Change Ubuntu Server from DHCP to a Static IP Address<br />
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If the Ubuntu Server installer has set your server to use DHCP, you will want to change it to a static IP address so that people can actually use it.<br />
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Changing this setting without a GUI will require some text editing, but that’s classic linux, right?<br />
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Let’s open up the /etc/network/interfaces file. I’m going to use vi, but you can choose a different editor<br />
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sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces<br />
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For the primary interface, which is usually eth0, you will see these lines:<br />
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auto eth0<br />
iface eth0 inet dhcp<br />
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As you can see, it’s using DHCP right now. We are going to change dhcp to static, and then there are a number of options that should be added below it. Obviously you’d customize this to your network.<br />
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auto eth0<br />
iface eth0 inet static<br />
address 192.168.1.100<br />
netmask 255.255.255.0<br />
network 192.168.1.0<br />
broadcast 192.168.1.255<br />
gateway 192.168.1.1<br />
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== DNS settings ==<br />
using /etc/network/interfaces.. add a line like:<br />
dns-nameservers 12.34.56.78 12.34.56.79<br />
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or<br />
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set by editing the resolv.conf file:<br />
nameserver 4.2.2.1<br />
nameserver 4.2.2.2<br />
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You need to also disable the dhcp-client startup for this to stick.<br />
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Now we’ll just need to restart the networking components:<br />
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sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart<br />
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