IP Number/Hostname Request Form

Purpose of This Form

Each machine connected the the Internet has to have a unique number as its network address (IP number or IP address). A name (hostname) is often associated with that IP address to make it easier for humans to remember. The PHA Computer Center allocates these numbers in cooperation with Hopkins Information Technology Services. Certain information is required about each machine for a number of department databases.

You can request an IP address from the Computer Center with this form.

How To Use This Form

Please provide all of the requested information so your request can be fulfilled quickly. When you have completed the form, press Submit Form to send the form, or press Reset Form to clear the form and begin again. The Budget Code and Budget Admin Asst fields below MUST be completed or we won't assign an IP address. It is faster for you to get this information from your budget analyst than for us to track it down for you.

The Computer Committee has decided that each network connection will be charged $23.50 per month (Fiscal year 2005) in order to recoup some of the Computer Center costs of operation. The department will pay for the first connection of each faculty member and for each Teaching Assistant (while they are TA's). Please provide either a grant number or indicate that the department should pay for the connection.

It is very important that you indicate where the computer will be located (room number and network jack number) if it needs a new physical connection. (If this computer is going to replace an existing computer, please be sure to send email to request@pha.jhu.edu letting us know where the old computer went.)

Some rules for choosing hostnames:

Please provide two or three desired hostnames. (Your first choice may be already taken by one of the existing 650-plus networked devices on our network.) Here are some suggestions about naming computers.
They should be less than 20 characters long and begin with a letter (as opposed to a number). The only non-letter or non-number characters allowed are dashes (underscores are not allowed).
Shorter is better. The name will be all lower-case.

When a number has been allocated (this may take two or three business days), you will be notified by email or phone.

The Ethernet address is a unique number assigned to the networking hardware of your computer. It has six hexadecimal fields separated by colons (e.g. 08:00:20:21:3d:91). Some computers, such as laptops with wireless, have one Ethernet number for each kind of network.

Please give us the Ethernet address(es) so we can configure our DHCP server to know about your computer, which will allow you to avoid having to manually configure the networking parameters on your computer, if you choose.

How do you get this Ethernet address? Some vendors print this number on a sticker on the outside of your computer's box. UNIX computers normally display it when they are first turned on. You can also use the command "ifconfig -a" in a terminal window to see it. Windows PC's can run a command window (choose Run in the Start menu, type "cmd")and issue the command "ipconfig /all". Macintosh users can find it either with the "ifconfig -a" command in a Terminal window or by running the graphical application "Network Utility" from the folder /Applications/Utilities.

Please provide a system serial number (for the CPU) so the Computer Center can identify your machine if stolen, better coordinate hardware and software maintenance contracts, etc. On Dell computers, this is called the "service tag."

Customer Information Section

(If you are filling out this form for someone else's computer, please put your name in the Requester fields. If this is for your computer, just leave those fields blank.)

Primary User's Full Name 
Their UNIX Login Name  (NONE if none avail)
Work Group/Research Area  (eg ACS,FUSE,HEP,CMT,GRAD,SDSS)
Campus Phone Ext       (last 4 digits)
E-mail Address        
Requester's Full Name 
Requester' E-mail

Please indicate the the primary user's position type:
Faculty Post doctoral Research scientist Staff Graduate student Graduate student (Teaching Assistant) Undergraduate Other

Computer Parameters (Please check all that apply)

For what type of computer is this address being requested?

 Intel/AMD PC running Windows or Linux
 Macintosh (or clone) running Mac OS X, or a Mac Linux
 Unix, other than Linux
 VMS
 Other

What kind of device is this? Desktop Laptop Printer, server, or other fixed device

(IMPORTANT) To which building network will the computer be connected?
Production (for most people) Experimental vBNS (many (but not all) HEP, SDSS and CM group computers)

If the computer is a laptop, we can configure our DHCP server to give the computer its fixed IP address via DHCP. That way it can change its configuration automatically depending on where you plug it in (home or work). If you want this service, please mention it in the comments section below.

Bloomberg Room Number  (location of computer)
Manufacturer          
Model                 
System Serial Number  
Operating system       (Include version number)
Ethernet address       (Six part hexadecimal number of form XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX)
Ethernet address       (Wireless, if you have one)
First hostname        
Second alternative     (plz specify an alternative!)
Third alternative      (plz specify an alternative!)
Budget code            (for net connection fee)
Budget's Admin Asst    (who manages this budget)
Any Comments?         REPLACE THIS TEXT WITH ANYTHING ELSE WE NEED TO KNOW
For example, WILL THIS COMPUTER NEED A NEW NETWORK HOOK UP (OR DOES IT USE AN EXISTING CONNECTION)? (IF SO, WHERE DID THE PREVIOUS COMPUTER GO?!?)

THE Budget Code AND Budget Admin Asst FIELDS ABOVE MUST BE COMPLETED OR WE WILL NOT ASSIGN AN IP ADDRESS. It is faster for you to get this information from your budget analyst than for us to stop what we are doing and go to that same person only to have them guess at which of your budgets they should charge. Budget codes are SAP Internal Order numbers and look like 12345678 (we don't know what "my NASA budget" is).

By submitting this application, you are agreeing to abide by the following:

If you are submitting it on behalf of someone else, that person needs to be told about these rules.
You will read and follow the guidelines for the appropriate use of JHU computers and networks: http://www.it.jhu.edu/standsandguidelines
Please notify the Computer Center (via email to request@pha.jhu.edu) if this computer is moved to a different location, retired or transferred to a new owner so that we can change our billing database.
If the Computer Center or Hopkins Information Technology Services (HITS) finds that a computer appears to compromise network security, the network connection will be disabled to protect your peers until the issue can be resolved. All networked computers must be protected with applicable security patches and Windows anti-virus software, such as that provided for free by the University: http://www.jhu.edu/anti-virus/ .

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