MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP

[Paul Lussier]

klussier at comcast.net writes:

> Um, well..... That is interesting. I've never used a DNS name in the
> dhcpd.conf file like that. I've always put in an IP address. I'll
> have to give this a try. It's simple. One IP address for both NICs
> based on DNS name. I like that.

Ahm, when you're maintaining 300+ hosts in both DHCP and DNS manually,
you get *real* tired of data-duplication between the two.  If
everything is in DNS once, leave it there and have DHCP refer to it,
that's what it's there for :)

(in case it's not overly obvious, I do exactly what Neil mentioned for
*everything* in my network, not to mention extremely liberal use of
DNS macro statements to autogenerate entire class B and C spaces worth
of A and CNAME records in one line of code :)
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Seeya,
Paul