[Infrastructures] DHCP for servers

[Pete Ehlke]

On Mon Jun 27, 2005 at 16:32:36 -0600, Rainer.Heilke@atcoitek.com wrote:
>In Active Directory, you can use DHCP, and have reservations for
>servers. I'm assuming ISC and others have this as well. I know of some
>that work this way. While this eases some problems, the down side is
>that this wouldn't prevent the problems you mention. Of course, these
>problems aren't limited to DHCP (like when some whiz fires up Samba, and
>stomps on your Windows domain).
>
Dealing with DHCP server failover scenarios and the like isn't the hard part
of this.

The hard part comes when you want to use DHCP to configure your servers,
but there are also other things- VCS, Sun Cluster, and the like- that
think *they* should be in control of the same sort of thing that DHCP
typically controls...

-Pete