Changeip not working?

Question

I recently did a change of IP on my Xserve G5 running Tiger 10.4.5.
Two days after changing the IP in System Preferences, I used changeip like this:
sudo changeip /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 201.224.xxx.116 201.226.xxx.162
I now CAN'T login as any Open Directory user. Even after running the changeip command. I tried changing the homes directories (which were binded to afp://201.224.xxx.116) to the new ip, but I still can't login.
Some help would be really appreciated.

Answer 1

When you say you "can't login" , do you mean: as a user at a client machine, attempting to authenticate to the server ?
Thre things come to mind: did you use Directory Access on the client Macs, to change the info to point to the new IP ? If you originally configured this by hostname, launch the Terminal application, and check:
dig your.servers.fqdn
what does that get for an answer, when you try that on a client Mac ?
Where your.servers.fqdn is your server's full DNS name, eg:
server.nutsnbolts.org
You may need to run: sudo lookupd -flushcache
on the server and clients.
Which leads me to: are you running DNS on the server, or is it fully hosted elsewhere ? Did the DNS records get changed to reflect the new IP ?
What does
dig your.servers.fqdn
and
dig -x 201.226.xxx.162
tell you ?
Do of course use your actual (full) IP there, not with the "x"-es