[mythtv-users] Re: Why only numeric IP addresses work?

[Greg]

> 
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:57:50 -0700, Jarod Wilson wrote
> > On Wednesday 13 October 2004 08:54, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:02:28AM -0400, Matt Mossholder wrote:
> > > > For clarification, it might be more understandable for 
> people if 
> > > > you say that all machines but the firewall are DHCP 
> clients, but 
> > > > the server systems are always assigned the same address by the 
> > > > DHCP server, based on MAC address. This isn't a static 
> address, it 
> > > > is just a consistently assigned dynamic address :)
> > >
> > > I suppose.  To me something that never changes is static, 
> regardless 
> > > of where it's stored.
> > 
> > I'm still not a fan of doing things that way. What happens 
> if the DHCP 
> > server croaks? All of a sudden, none of your servers have any IP 
> > address (once their DHCP lease expires)...
> 
> What happens if your myth server croaks?  All of the sudden 
> you miss recording
> 9 episodes of I love Lucy and none of your TVs work.  So what?
> 
> Larger networks DEPEND on DHCP.  Just ask the 100,000 or so 
> subscribers to the local telephone internet service.  It's 
> all DHCP.  I'd trust a DCHP server to keep working long 
> before I'd put any bets on a Myth backend.  Besides, even if 
> the DHCP sever goes down, what have you lost?  The myth 
> backend doesn't care.
>  At worst, you'll miss a nightly TV guide update.
> 

And you'd have to have pretty short leases for you to notice things "losing"
their addresses before you noticed that your dhcp server was stuffed,
wouldn't you?

Greg