Re: MVP for a DHCP server

[Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

EF> I want to configure as little as possible on the clients. [...]
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RM> You configure a hostname on the device. [...]
Hm.


> The DHCP server will update the DNS with the hostname/ip
So you are suggesting that every time one of my 150+ desktop machine (or 20+ network printers) boot, a DHCP server is going to update my three DNS servers and they are going to send (incremental) Zone Transfers to the three secondaries in the Univ. central IT?


I also have a known_hosts file containing the names+IPs+keys of the 150+ desktop machines so you can reliably SSH to them. How is that going to work with dxnamic addresses?

I also have some kiosk machines configured as scanning stations (with an externally connected flatbed scanner). Scans are stored on their local discs, but accessing them goes through one of the main web servers which will proxy the request to a local web server on the kiosk machine. Unfortunately, that proxy configuration needs IP addresses. I guess I have more examples like that.