[BBLISA] DHCP server choices?

[Dewey Sasser]

On 8/29/2013 11:37 AM, Nahum Shalman wrote:
> No one has mentioned dnsmasq: 
> http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html
>
> It claims to be fine up to around 1000 clients so if you run multiple 
> subnets and give each one its own dnsmasq instance, it might be an 
> interesting option.
>
> I do use it at work (though on a much smaller network, thus my 
> suggestion that you use multiple instances....)

I've used it in a corporate lab environment with up to about 450 
machines (many of them VMs).  It was rock solid but eventually I needed 
to implement my own dynamic DNS calls to map names from a 
self-provisioning system (VMWare LabManager).   Also, I was nervous 
about single point of failure -- the software was solid but a machine 
can always fail.

Eventually I moved to BIND and ISC DHCPD which worked pretty well. After 
a few hours of Googling I didn't have any configuration issues with it.

--
Dewey