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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 17/07/14 01:14, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> How about thinking about it differently? Instead of a system-wide 
> setting, how about saying:
> 
> * you can bind an IP to a machine, in which case it is reserved
> for that even if the machine is off * you can *unbind* an IP from a
> switched-off machine, which means it will be released and a new one
> assigned when needed * if you haven't bound an IP to a machine then
> it is released when you release the machine

This is exactly how I've implemented it already - I just need to add
the external API parts to do the specialised binding once 1.6.0 is out.

The system-wide setting came about because some people were expressing
a desire to see the binding happen by default.
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