Host configuration

[Todd Snyder]

I would argue, from my admittedly limited experience, that having an
entire data centres function relying on the continued functionality of a
single box/service when not necessary is a risk, one that I wouldn't
necessarily see people wanting to take.  However, it would appear I'm
wrong in that respect.

My thinking is that it would be best to statically assign ips to the
core servers, to ensure that boxes will boot and be useful without
relying on an external service (other than the network, which is a
given).

I've just had too many bad experiences (Windows related mostly, but
Linux as well) where servers don't behave reliably with DHCP, and behave
very very badly in the absense of that service (ie: hanging on boot
until an IP is present .. Sendmail, I'm looking at you).

My $0.02CDN

Todd.

-----Original Message-----
From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Jeff Younker
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 4:00 PM
To: dhcp-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Host configuration

On Feb 11, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Todd Snyder wrote:

> There is much power in the use of DHCP - being able to centralize and 
> change key network configs dynamically is ideal.  However, that 
> functionality is lost the minute you want to use static ip addresses.
> Now, I realize you could assign a static IP on the dhcp server, so a 
> server always gets the same one, but that isn't ideal for a data 
> centre.

Why isn't that ideal for a data center?

- Jeff Younker - You are in a maze of twisty branch histories, all the
same -



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