Over the weekend I setup an Ubuntu 12.04 server VM. I edited /etc/network/interfaces so eth0 has a static IP address... going from memory here: netmask 255.255.255.0 ...
A few months back, I put together a big fat guide on how to configure DNS and DHCP on your LAN the old-school way, with bind and dhcpd working together to seamlessly hand out addresses to hosts on ...