Howard Lowndes wrote:
I think the best reason to use DHCP on networks is to advertise
network services or options, even for workstations that have "static"
IP addresses tied to MAC addresses. Thus if you change such things as
DNS servers, NTP servers, WINS servers, etc. then all workstations
gain consistent configuration. Why would you want to do anything
else, esp using fully static configurations.
OK, let's say, for a moment, one use DHCP to assign ip addresses to
Workstations.
What about your local servers ?
Do you use STATIC ip addresses for your local Servers at all that provide
services like WWW, MySQL, PostgresSQL, Address Directory, local DNS,
Auth servers, and other local services ?
If not, how do you handle Server Services ? Use FQDN or ip addresses to
access services ?
O Plameras
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