I have also found that having a reliable "historical" mapping between a host and an IP address, either via manual static numbering or (more typically) static DHCP assignments, is useful simply for debugging or doing production analysis from farm usage logs, or even for just trolling httpd logs for that matter.

David

On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Barry Zubel wrote:

The point is echoed here - DHCP with static assignments where
applicable.

It also means that there is a centralised location to look up any IP
address issues. With static, it always meant another spreadsheet to
dig out and keep up to date. With Dynamic DNS updates, static
leases and DHCP, the only place you need to look is the DHCP server.

If you're a Windows/AD shop, it's all built in. If you're a *nix
shop... it's all available and much more customizable. Both
solution are perfectly adequate.

Barry Zubel

On 03/02/2010 20:02, Greg Whynott wrote: > hopefully everyone is doing DHCP these days, otherwise you might
> be a fan of extra work. 8) > > Most everything here is DHCP, even many of the servers (with
> static DHCP assignments). it just makes sense from an
> administrative point of view. dynamic dns with dhcp is bomb-tastic. > > we use to outsource IT here, they were using a network range for
> the corp side of things that didn't fit into our plan. so when we
> took IT back in house we built a new scope, rebooted the switches
> the machines were connected to, and we were back up and working
> within 10 minutes, as opposed to what may of taken a few hours to
> manually renumber everything? > > makes new deployments a lot easier too, one less thing to tweak/ > consider. > > > -g > > > On Feb 3, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Hanoz Elavia wrote: > > >> Hello all, >> >> Just wanted to know what studios are using for their ip addressing. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Hanoz >> __ >> StudioSysAdmins-Discuss mailing list >> StudioSysAdmins-Discuss@mailman.studiosysadmins.com >> http://mailman.studiosysadmins.com/mailman/listinfo/studiosysadmins-discuss >> > __ > StudioSysAdmins-Discuss mailing list > StudioSysAdmins-Discuss@mailman.studiosysadmins.com > http://mailman.studiosysadmins.com/mailman/listinfo/studiosysadmins-discuss >

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