From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 11 11:47:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E5E37B403 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:47:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6BIhoZ05093; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:43:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B4C9F21.88B95ECF@iowna.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:46:57 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Scheidt Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Scheidt wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > > :Wes Peters wrote: > :> Just because you don't see it doesn't make it a bad idea. Network admins > :> begged for years for a centralized IP address space management server; > :> now that they've been given one (that works, and is FREE) people like you > :> bitch about it and won't use it. Feh. > : > :Are you saying you use DHCP for servers? If so, maybe I should shut up > :and listen for a while because apparently there's something here I can > :learn. I've been using it for client IP pools for years now, but not > :for servers. > > Using DHCP for servers means it's much less work to renumber a network, > change router addresses, DNS servers, and so on. Very useful if you've got > a zillion machines. Change the settings, and as leases expire, the client > servers get the new ones. Hmmm ... here I can see it. I guess this is partly my lack of knowledge of large installations. The largest facility I consult for has 4 servers. That's hardly a chore to change if you want to change the IP pool. Change the DHCP for the clients and change 4 network configs. Hrmmm ... I appear to be doing a good job of exposing where my experience is lacking this week ... -Bill -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message