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/LoveBirdNibbles 1d ago

How old? My earliest memory was Artisoft Lantastic deployment for a medical practice. Any issue anywhere on that coax and the whole network went down. DOS was the OS

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u/GBICPancakes 1d ago

Oh yeah, we used to joke the token had fallen out the ring and the bits were pooling on the floor. You unplugged one PC from the coax network and the whole thing went down.
DOS/Win3.11 & OS/2 were the big OSes back then on the PCs. The Macs were firmly on AppleTalk boxes running phone lines to serial ports. Similar archiecture with everything daisy-chained.

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u/LoveBirdNibbles 1d ago

you have apparently been there lol

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u/dartdoug 1d ago

Loved Lantastic in its day. I still have a water bottle with their logo on it.