Re: [xcat-user] Using external DNS and DHCP server

[Siddharth T. <sid...@li...>]

Thanks Jarrod,
I figured that DHCP will be a issue, because I see as soon as I let both of them go live, all nodes on the network go nuts, the IPs are all over the place and I cannot do PXE any more. 

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> On Jul 31, 2017, at 6:30 AM, Jarrod Johnson <jjo...@le...> wrote:
> 
> On the DNS side, things aren't too picky if you manage that by hand.  There's even some support for using MS DNS server in makedns, but I haven't done that in years.
> 
> The DHCP is a tricky problem.  Support for coexistence with uncontrolled dhcp server is actually planned, but not done yet.  I could imagine manual effort to support netboot method 'pxe', but 'xnba' requires too much complexity out of the DHCP server to do manually.
> 
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> From: Siddharth Tiwari [mailto:sid...@li...] 
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 4:32 AM
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> Subject: [xcat-user] Using external DNS and DHCP server
> 
> Hi Team,
> I have an enterprise wide external DHCP and DNS running in server 2016, can someone guide me how can I make sure xcat uses it rather than the DHCP it uses internally ? 
> Please note, both xcat and server 2016 are on same network, we are not very large yet to have multiple networks. 
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