Tixy wrote: > > I can't see what the problem with DHCP is, if I want to have static IP > addresses or use names to identify machines on the network, I can take > a minute to add a line to dnsmasq.conf on my router. I know some people > say that DHCP is a single point of failure, or they don't want to run > extra hardware 24/7, but I would think most of us already have a router > providing internet access that can do DHCP. And if that fails, have a > spare (even if it's just an old device) that can be pressed into > immediate use. I for one consider internet access sufficiently > important to make fixing it a priority.
I use ISC dhcpd on two machines at home: my firewall and my server. The failover system took about twenty minutes of reading to figure out. Then the firewall has unbound and the server has bind; unbound does caching and general name resolution, and looks at bind for my local names. This is more complicated than it needs to be but I wanted to experiment. -dsr-
