[Infrastructures] DHCP for servers

[David A. Ulevitch]

On Jun 27, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Kyle Moore wrote:

> This is probably a stupid question but is it common or considered  
> best practices to use DHCP for servers? I've always thought this  
> was a bad idea because it is just one more dependency for the  
> server that I would like to avoid. Now that I'm trying to automate  
> more and maintain consistency DHCP seems like a good idea.

It doesn't seem like it'd be very hard to make a failover DHCP  
setup.  DHCP provides a lot of nice things (like enabling PXEboot)  
and other features.  Unlike a database server which might be hard to  
setup failover for, a DHCP server seems rather easy and static.

In fact, I may have read about some features in ISCs dhcpd that  
specifically provide or complement some failover features but I can't  
see to find it at the moment... man dhcpd I suppose. :)

Thanks,
David Ulevitch