At 4/9/2002 09:28 PM -0400, you wrote: >You could accomplish the same thing using static IP addresses and hosts >files.
I do accomplish this using static IP addresses today, although I use DNS rather than hosts files. I find that copying files to every machine is a PITA and introduces the potential for error. Managing DNS is *much* easier! But the point is that dynamic DNS updated from DHCP would, I feel, be a better way. Less management, therefore time and money savings. >It would take less time to setup and there are less moving parts to >break. I disagree here. Note that, every time I make a change now, I have to change a couple of lines in dhcpd.conf and one line in casa.paiz.org.hosts; your way, I'd have to copy one file to all PC's, make sure they're all on and in the house, compensate for different OS's... God no! No thanks. If dynamic updates to DNS from DHCP worked, the whole damn thing would be transparent. A godsend. >Just put every machine you own or that may connecto to your networin >in the hosts file and copy it to all your machines. See, now *that* is work. >If you often get visiting UNIX/Linux machines, you may need an internal >DNS. Which will not know about them anyway, so I'll have to reconfigure DNS every time any machine comes into the network. >If the visiting machines are Windows, just enable WINS on a Samba >server and recent versions of Windows will use WINS to resolve DNS queries. More services, more risks, again more work. Why take the hard way? >For small networks, DNS and DHCP are often more trouble than they're worth. Beg to differ. I find caching nameservers and DHCP to be an absolute godsend, and no work at all. Take 45 seconds to setup since I already have a stock named.conf and dhcpd.conf I give to all my customers. Certainly faaaaar less work than going around to *every* box and manually configuring its IP address, netmask, gateway, yadda yadda yadda. Again, *that's* work. -- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
