[BBLISA] DHCP server choices?

[John Miller]

I'm not so worried about Linux DNS servers: there are plenty of 
alternatives to BIND if I want something a little simpler to configure 
or a different feature set.

I'd just like to see a FOSS DHCP server that's scalable and that's 
different than ISC dhcpd.

The config management piece doesn't worry me so much--if I'm rolling out 
your changes straight to production systems, that should probably be 
addressed before anything else.

John


On 08/29/2013 07:50 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (bblisa4) wrote:
>> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
>> Behalf Of John Miller
>>
>> Apart from Microsoft DHCP and ISC DHCPD, are you aware of other DHCP
>> servers out there?  We'll be considering a revamp later this fall, and aren't
>
> Do you want to name any specific things you care about?
>
> Cuz I'll be honest with you - I've used a whole bunch of dhcp and dns servers, and I usually wish I could get MS when I don't have it.  They make it so braindead simple to keep the service always running reliably and fully integrated dynamic dns updates, and automatically synced with a redundant server.
>
> By comparison - on solaris or various flavors of linux - even on osx server - configuring the redundancy is a PITA, and in your daily operations, f you make a mistake in the config, you restart or reload the service, and voila.  Service is down.  Everyone loses.
>
> At a major company who shall remain unnamed, they ran redhat with the default named package, and some genius decided to use an archaic version control system on the named config files, with a wrapper script to push out changes to the dns servers.  One mistake in the config file, and suddenly all the dns servers are down.  NFS mounts failing, cluster frack.
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> Yes.  I beg for MS by comparison to everything else I've seen.
>