On 10/25/24 07:35, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 09:33:24 +0100, Joe wrote:
I was assuming someone setting up a server of some kind would not be
running a DHCP client, which of course can be done with a reservation,
but it's another potential point of failure that a fixed address
configuration doesn't have.
I've seen it done both ways. In a lot of environments, even server IP
addresses are assigned by DHCP (with a reservation so that the same
address is issued every time). This gives the benefit of central
address management.
On my LAN (i.e. in my house) pretty much everything gets a particular
address assigned by DHCP, so I can easily identify it and address it in a
firewall if need be.
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