On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:07:50PM -0400, Patrick Cable spake thusly: > I am of the mindset that as long as the server gets the same address > every time, I don't care how it gets configured, and if I'm going to
I worry about the DHCP server being down (due to power outage or whatever causing everything to power cycle) and the servers not coming up. Now you have a timing dependency. I also worry about the DHCP server going down or dhcpd process goes away unnoticed (yes, monitoring *should* catch this) and servers not being able to renew their lease and dying unexpectedly perhaps many days after the dhcp server went down. If I had a large compute cluster or "cloud" etc. where all of the machines were intended to be identical yet generic resources I would probably dhcp them just because it seems pointless to manage IPs for them all. Just have to keep the above issues in mind. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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