and then plan for a convenient squirell suicide at the transformer that night (power outage forcing a reboot).
--david > On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Roy McMorran wrote: > > > The ancient Sun Fire 280R that's been our DHCP server for about a > > decade needs to be out of here, and soon. It's running the stock > > Solaris 10 DHCP server software. I'm inclined to let one of our > > Windows 2008 R2 servers take over the DHCP duties (although I might be > > persuaded to go a different way, e.g. ISC DHCP on RedHat, but DNS is > > already on Windows so...). This is a pretty small environment, with > > only about 130 dynamically-assigned addresses, all in one contiguous > > range. I assume there's no way to transport the current lease > > information between such disparate servers. Any suggestions on making > > the transition go smoothly? > > change the lease time to a small value, wait until everyone has new > leases with this smaller value, then swap out the servers when they are > all home overnight. > > the only people who will be affected are then ones who are online at the > time you change the server. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
