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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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