dynamic ip ok for NFS/LDAP servers? Network Gurus?

[Jack Craig]

Thanks for your reply.

despite the proposed solution, may i assume the WTF means you agree that
usually servers should be static?

I like that ever technical need may be solved in many  ways, but i was
lo9oking also
to verify or refute my previous opinion.

Thx again, ...


On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote:

>
>
> Am 30.11.2012 17:35, schrieb Jack Craig:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > The following strikes me as wrong, but i am Not  guru,
> > so i thought to ask this forum where the wizards Do Live! :)
> >
> > Pls consider a configuration with a single host providing NFS4
> > /home directories for other hosts in a 6 host cluster. Further,
> > openldap is on the same host to provide for authentication
> > on all 6.
> >
> > the architect says its ok to configure all hosts w/DHCP,
> > but i see the ip changing every day or 2 (many reboots due setup).
> >
> > I am a huge fan of static ip for servers, but what do i know?! :(
> >
> > So, Question, is DHCP ok for the 6 hosts in this config, or go static.
> > More, static on server only maybe?
>
> for servers dynamic addresses?
> WTF?
>
> but you can satisfy both with dhcpd and controll
> this way any ip-address dynamically
>
> i am doing this even in bigger setups for any known client machine
> and generate dhcpd.conf based on my dns-database which has a column
> for the hwaddress
>
> host printer {
>
>  hardware ethernet 00:17:A4:6E:2E:95;
>  fixed-address 192.168.2.10;
> }
>
>
>
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