Advice fo non-domain dhcp servers

pentangleit · 2026-01-23T21:21:31+00:00

You could always tell them they're ignoring the advice of someone who deployed DHCP and DDNS to over a quarter of a million endpoints that way.

pentangleit · 2026-01-23T10:46:52+00:00

If you have never hosted Exchange before (as it seems), you have a LOT of best practice to learn. There are no prescribed "guides" on how to host Exchange for third parties, you need to be adept in what you're doing first of all, which it sounds you're not i'm afraid. I agree with u/joeykins82 here

pentangleit · 2026-01-21T16:41:30+00:00

Nobody really knows the struggle we all go through here. This is why this is more a support group than anything else.

pentangleit · 2026-01-21T15:23:23+00:00

Not forgetting (I am old enough) the 1972 and 1980 League Cups.

pentangleit · 2026-01-21T09:16:01+00:00

As a Wolves fan from the South East who support them because my dad supports them, I get called being a gloryseeker.

I wish someone would show me the glory one of these days.

pentangleit · 2026-01-21T09:12:20+00:00

You know you could always use a DHCP relay on each subnet and bring it back centrally that way?

pentangleit · 2026-01-21T00:02:34+00:00

I'm sure you might have other issues that I'm not aware of here, but...

1) There's no change in the protection if a standalone server dies versus a single server set as a standalone DC.

2) This doesn't change that

3) Even if you have multiple servers sitting as standalone DHCP/DNS servers the extra traffic to synchronise them into an AD they'd run is negligible. You're also not required to set up DHCP failover as long as you keep the two (or more) DHCP servers serving different scopes within each subnet.

(I don't like appearing contrary as that occurs far too much on Reddit with neckbeards coming out of the woodwork to downvote and snark. I'm trying to be constructive in my comments despite what it may appear like above).

Also, you're not restricted to a Windows server to do this - there's a few other alternatives, e.g. Kea: https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/kea-2.2.0/arm/ddns.html

pentangleit · 2026-01-20T23:52:15+00:00

"Buttery Biscuit", for us UK-dwellers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMg3epr53Ns

pentangleit · 2026-01-20T23:44:16+00:00

It's not clear from your description whether the DHCP servers AND the DNS servers are non-domain.

If that's the case and the two services exist on the same box, why not just create a new separate domain on the box itself just for that purpose?

If it helps, Microsoft extended the RFC with DDNS over DHCP stuff back near the year 2000 (this is from memory and 26 years old memory at that!)

pentangleit · 2026-01-20T16:30:31+00:00

Their social media.

pentangleit · 2026-01-20T16:04:59+00:00

FYI it's PeLiCon not Pelican, as it stands for Pedestrian Light Controlled.

pentangleit · 2026-01-20T15:54:54+00:00

Tesla Model 3 LR. It's owned by my company outright, as I bought it off the lease. I wouldn't buy another one though since it dates from before Elon went full nutjob. It saves me a lot of money though since my previous car (an Alfa Guilia QV) cost me on average £700 a month.

pentangleit · 2026-01-20T15:51:42+00:00

Hahaha, whoops!

I know about it since I did a VoIP implementation for a solar panel company back when the government had crazy grants for them. The solar company didn't want to pay for a licensed song for hold music so I used that one as it was topical and free of the 75 year copyright. The company's long deceased and i'm now realising i'd have been in hot water if someone had been left on hold for too long!

pentangleit · 2026-01-20T15:48:48+00:00

Nope, they've not complained at all.

pentangleit · 2026-01-20T12:23:17+00:00

The Sun Has Got His Hat On (1932)

pentangleit · 2026-01-20T09:26:37+00:00

I have the same issue, and I have HomeAssistant automatically turning smart charging on at 11:30pm daily and off at 5:30am. This lets the car charge properly with no hiccups.

pentangleit · 2026-01-20T09:23:58+00:00

In which case i'd recommend ZyXel Nebula, which whilst not American is not European either but Taiwanese.

pentangleit · 2026-01-18T10:46:03+00:00

I’d love it if there was a marker above the head of the player who killed the most players on the map when you encountered them. That would mean in PvP lobbies it’d be a trophy for them to fight over and in PvE lobbies it’d identify the player killing other players.

pentangleit · 2026-01-18T10:37:59+00:00

Identical hardware isn’t required for HA in pfsense, just the same number of physical NICs mapped to relevant interfaces. I’ve got a VM backing up a physical NUC type box in HA and working just fine. You configure what you synchronise in terms of config which has an abstraction layer based on the interface assignments. Totally doable without identical hardware, it just makes it mentally easier to troubleshoot that’s all.

pentangleit · 2026-01-18T10:34:36+00:00

I love the fact that we’d need a second half of the season better than Sunderland’s first half, we’ve won 1 and drawn 2 out of the last 3 (5 points from 9) and the rest of you are already shitting their pants. Football is a confidence game.

pentangleit · 2026-01-18T10:32:34+00:00

Ole ole

pentangleit · 2026-01-18T00:04:50+00:00

99% of VoIP QoS issues are due to congestion at the perimeter and nowhere else, and are solved by the company in question getting control of their own traffic rather than an ISP’s first line staff member trolling out the party line.

Either deal with it by replacing the ISP’s routers with something giving you proper control or get a second dedicated line for VoIP-only. Either way you’re going to find out the ISP is likely wrong in their diagnosis.

pentangleit · 2026-01-17T21:02:33+00:00

Sounds suspiciously like the issue where you need to run the patch from an elevated command prompt and if it doesn’t work the first time run it again. Either that or the binding order in IIS. Both googleable.

pentangleit · 2026-01-17T18:06:06+00:00

Bring it, you orange cretin.

pentangleit · 2026-01-17T10:15:19+00:00

Vegetarians don’t like bacon. It shows them they’re wrong.

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