[clug] Pop quiz.. (DHCP and servers).

Peter Barker pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au
Tue Jan 13 11:07:12 GMT 2009


On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Andrew Janke wrote:

> Should you or shouldn't you let your servers/desktops get their IP
> address via DHCP?

Desktops via DHCP.

Servers in my clusters statically written out from the dhcp'd address at 
install time.  Looking back, I should have written a lot more stuff out 
statically at install time - just fewer moving parts.

Yours,
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Peter Barker                          |   Programmer,Sysadmin,Geek.
pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au	      |   You need a bigger hammer.
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