rootninja

When you work in the engineering department where everyone uses Linux and Solaris, yet outside of that department the other 99% of the employees use Windows, including the IT department that exclusively trusts in Microsoft, you sort of get the shaft. It can very much be a you-vs-us game that gets played whenever you need something done. Well I don’t expect them to understand the inner workings of the engineering group or to trust us individually, but as a department within the same organization, we’re all batting for the same team!

We just went from one x86 build server to three. And I fully expected the expansion so I asked IT to reserve IP’s for build-x86-01 through build-x86-05. But what happens when I go to set up 3 more and that last IP address in the bunch is taken? I know it really doesn’t matter, and it’s part of the point of having DNS in the first place. Who really cares about IP addresses when you have a name to rely on — this guy! ME!!! I like contiguous addressing for functionally related servers. It just makes it nice and pretty!

So am I the only one out there that likes to set aside blocks? 5 in a row here for ldap replicas, 10 over here for build servers, 101-254 on the next 5 subnets for dhcp addresses… and on and on. In a large organization you wouldn’t have servers mixed in with dhcp addressed workstations would you? So why not try to keep it organized on a small network?!

/rant

oh, and a disclaimer - I fudged some of the above to protect the innocent :)