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Article: IP address management has strategic value; * IP address space is an asset, and needs to be managed accordingly.
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- Network World
- Article date:
- September 26, 2006
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Byline: Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Many organizations still approach IP address management as a somewhat secondary consideration. Since the basic tools
are available for free on any platform, many companies will deploy DNS and DHCP servers on an ad-hoc basis with little or
no central management, often without an organization-wide naming and addressing schema.
Surprisingly enough, in many organizations, IP address management still consists of a paper record or a spreadsheet. While
these manual approaches might work for a domain containing a few dozen static hosts, they cannot cope with the two major trends
in IP address ...