The upside of course is- centralized management of host info. The downside is that you have now added another dependency for all of the servers - so DHCP server robustness is absolutely critical.
Personally, I'm of the thought that in our setup, the "less" dependant of outside services a server needs- the better. Thoughts to consider: * What happens when a network service outage occurs (one that would isolate the dhcp box from some - or all - of the servers) * Who manages network address space? (in our case, it's NOT us-- network belongs to corporate I.T..) There are certainly pros and cons to doing this - I've only hit a few. - I would assume that in this forum, you'll find a pretty wide variety of opinions..! -Kent --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie Department of Physiology (and) Human and Molecular Genetics Center Medical College of Wisconsin bro...@mcw.edu +1 414 955 8590 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
