[Infrastructures] DHCP for servers

[Daniel Hagerty]

    bah, lean on send key while still working.  time to get lunch :)

 >     For better or worse, there are lots of things out there that don't
 > play nicely with DHCP, and will not until DHCP is made into something
 > else (e.g. web farms using IP based vhosting, or many other examples).
 >
 >   Sooner or later, you
 > have the problem where you have to start writing down information that
 > is actually volatile.

    To finish the thought...  I've found that the problem of writing
down this information is pretty general, and you can get a lot of
traction by building things that deal with regenerate the dependant
data as needed.  So, in the example case of DHCP and DNS, the dynamic
DNS portion doesn't matter as much if you're already generating your
DHCP and DNS files in the first place.  Dynamic DNS is still useful,
but has fewer use cases that actually require it (it strikes me as
being good for laptops; not so good if what you're really talking
about is static: if you already have to regenerate your DHCP and DNS
configs to reconfigure your network anyway, why take half measures in
the generation?).