Re: [dhcwg] What sorts of services does DHCP configure?

[Sten Carlsen <[e-mail]>]

On 15/10/13 04.01, Ted Lemon wrote:
> Sten, what I'm trying to get to is whether DHCP is the right solution for these problems in the abstract. If it is the only solution that's available now, it's perfectly understandable for people to use it in ways that don't entirely make sense.   But there has been noise made in the IETF about solving the problem of configuring applications like IMAP and SIP in node-specific rather than network-specific ways, and I'm trying to get the sense of whether working group participants agree that that's a good idea, or really think DHCP is the right way to solve that problem and that no better solution is needed or wanted.
I do see your point, what I try to say is that there is no other system
that knows your location within the network better. So either you use
DHCP to hand out a "configuration server" including maybe parameters or
do configurations it self.

I do see that a different type of service to do all those configurations
looks like a good idea, however it also means that that the management
systems now will have yet another system to manage from the same database.

A question: will there be many networks that only have one of the two
types of server?
>

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Sten Carlsen

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