[mythtv-users] Why only numeric IP addresses work?

[Yan-Fa Li]

Agreed.  For servers, static is best.  The only compelling argument to 
use DHCP for Servers is if you think you will ever have to renumber, 
like in the event of an acquisition, but that really is a weak argument 
for 99% of uses.  I personally use DHCP for my servers in networks I 
control, but then I also use nailed down MACs in the dhcpd.conf.

Jarod Wilson wrote:

> On Tuesday 12 October 2004 14:39, Yan-Fa Li wrote:
> 
>>This is actually a divergence between the philosophy of Unix and Windows
>>Network Administrators.  Windows guys prefer to set a DHCP address and
>>use Dynamic DNS updates to their Windows based DNS server and Unix guys
>>tend to nail things down using either DHCP or Static IP addresses.
> 
> 
> Not all Windows guys are that way. All our Windows server boxes at work have 
> static addresses. Same story the last place I worked. Could be that both are 
> that way because they are both are mixed Windows/Unix shops, maybe purely 
> Windows shops go the ddns-only route...