Vic wrote:
>> The survey has some notes on who is using DHCP management and who is
>> using DNS management.   I need to gather up those results shortly.
>>     
>
> Which survey? I'd like to participate[1].
>
>   

Thread here: 
https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2009-April/003881.html
>> We (Red Hat) are using it for DNS some for our own networks -- though
>> I'd need to check about how extensively.
>>     
>
> My feeling is that cobbler should definitely *not* do DNS or DHCP - that
> would make it very much harder to put into networks that already have such
> facilities.
>   

This is why these features are optional, and off by default.


> The Unix way is for each package to do one thing and do it well. cobbler
> seems to do remote installation very well (now that I've stopped being a
> complete numpty) - there's no need for it to do other things as well. It's
> not like setting up bind or dhcpd are particularly difficult...
>
>   

It's not ok to be good at both walking and chewing gum at the same time?

Read:
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/ManageDhcp
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/ManageDns



> What would be useful is for cobbler to have the ability to update bind -
> but I haven't read enough of the docs yet to know whether that already
> exists :-)
>   

It does.
> Vic.
>
> [1] Not that I've had much luck with feedback to RH lately - but I live in
> hope...
>
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