Some Suggestions

[the sunlover2]

Hello,

I have been searching google as well as the DHCP mailing list archive for 
the past two to three days, in order to find some useful information about 
how to setup DHCP, DDNS and failover stuff. By reading the postings, I feel 
that I have something to speak out:

1) DHCP is not something difficult. However, many people especially newbia 
still have lots of problems in configuring it. Why? Because there are no 
sufficient information about its configuration. The only two authoritative 
materials we can depend on at present time are a) The DHCP Handbook, b) the 
manpage of dhcpd.conf.

2) The DHCP Handbook is not that good at all (Sorry Ted Lemon, I know you 
are the co-author). There are very few instructive and helpful examples for 
the configuration under UNIX environment. It is full of theories which are 
useless when system administrators do their hands-on works. Look at the two 
important chapters - Chapter 22 DHCP/DNS Interaction and Chapter 25 
Communication between DHCP Servers (failover), we could not find even a 
simple and small example here. After we read these theories, we still don't 
know how to do our job- That is the major problem.

3) The manpage of dhcpd.conf is better than the Handbook in demonstrating 
practice, but still not good enough to cover every aspect of DHCP in 
details. Without full support from the Handbook and the man, we are in 
serious trouble when we start. The mailing list becomes our last resort, 
however, people here seems reluctant to help newbia.

4) For new ISC DHCP workers, we only need some good examples and templates. 
I saw people in the archive asking documentation desperately without getting 
any answer. I've noticed that Mr. Ted Lemon has spent lots of time here to 
answer people's various questions. May I suggest you to write a basic 
template of the dhcpd.conf file and give a tutorial on it? One good sample 
can cover almost all of the common aspects of DHCP which is not as hard as 
BIND. You may do your job like Paul Albitz & Cricket Liu have done in the 
DNS & BIND book? Why make the simple stuff complicated?

Sorry about my words. I believe that I am doing so in favor of the 
development of ISC DHCP.

Regards,

John.

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