RE: config IBM I and printers with DHCP?

Hi Patrik,

You are correct.

But just because you can do you really want to ?

I try to adopt the KISS principal.

Cheers
Don

 

Don Brown

Senior Consultant
 
[1]OneTeam IT Pty Ltd
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Patrik Schindler
Sent: Sunday, 19 October 2025 10:12 PM
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Subject: Re: config IBM I and printers with DHCP?

Hello Don,

Am 19.10.2025 um 01:28 schrieb Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> But if you have a dhcp assigned address without a reservation then the
> address can change and if you had created a dns entry that would now be
> wrong if/when the address changed. Given that if the device gets the
> address and there is never an outage and the device is never turned off
> the address may not change.
>
> Or am I missing something completely ?

Yes. Assuming Microsoft AD infrastructure is in use and end devices are
set up properly (correct entity name configured), Microsoft's DHCP server
updates the Microsoft DNS automatically.

Still, there are more layers than just a static IP address + DNS entry.
More layers mean more opportunities for failure. From that perspective I
can't duplicate the order to do everything via DHCP. Maybe someone thought
this being a good idea in the past, and now they want to push it through
because of the company merger.

:wq! PoC

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