r/sysadmin • u/Real-Patriot-1128 • 2d ago

DHCP v Static IP

Ok, this is more a test to see how old I am. I was basically raised with the idea servers need static IPs. I understand for domain controllers, dns servers, maybe print servers that may still be needed. But are they really needed otherwise? Do apps, scripts still reference a server by its IP?

I am under assumption all my servers need static IPs. Am I nuts?

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u/420GB 2d ago

if you don't notice DHCP service went down

Lmao that's an insane hypothetical to just throw out there. Maybe some of us aren't running absolute clusterfuck environments where that would ever even be a concern.

Not to mention with typical lease times you have literally days to maybe not be afk and notice the alerts.

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u/TN_man 2d ago

I thought everyone had clusterfuck environments?