RE: How many folks are actually using dynamic IP address assignment?

[Roberto Santarossa aka mongoose <[e-mail]>]

  >> microsoft uses dhcp to assign ip addresses dynamically for its 55,000+
  >> clients around the world. we have proactively tried to not hand out
  >> nailed addresses handed out via dhcp. yes we are having to optimize our
  >> address utilization on a regular basis. in our case it had been the
  >> original split up of the available address space and having to change it
  >> as we grew. changing hosts per subnet(s) also keeps this optimization
  >> interesting.  yes we watch it closely.
  >
  >I am just curious to know how people deal with "bogus" DHCP server (i.e.
  >someone is firing up a "test" DHCP server) which might assign the same
  >address ranges as the "production" DHCP servers)?
  >

And while you are at it, if you are using DNS along with WINS, could
you enlighten me as to how you trap an expired address and inform the
DNS server to delete the entry from it's database ? 
IBM's AIX version has DHCP server s/w and they have a mechanism to 
update the DNS when an IP is doled out but I'm not aware of any trigger
to update the DNS when an IP is expired/reclaimed. If you are only using
WINS, how does a WINS server get updated when a PC is turned off and the
IP is expired/reclaime ?

TIA.


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