Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How to survive in a Micro$oft environment?? | Date | Wed, 01 Mar 2000 17:12:39 +0100 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> The users (particularly developers who know just a little bit too > much) think that dhcp is a second-class protocol and want to get > static addresses because their machines Are! Important! Too!
If you do anything else than Windows-based pure client apps you very quickly need static addresses.
I've worked in an institution where addresses were assigned dynamically, no working DNS available and certain privileges (access to critical servers) were assigned _by IP address_. On some days we had to work more on getting basic networking running again and especially the confusion over IP addresses resolved than doing our development work. No thanks.
Of course it would be possible to do this all with a correctly functioning dynamic DNS based setup, but unless Window$ 200x does this out of the box and does it _right_ this won't happen in the real world.
Olaf
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