"I didn't realize posting links to encyclopedia articles qualified as "hacker news"."
If you actually have to be told this, I don't know what to say, but the analogy is if your virtualization system can't boot without working DHCP and DNS, you've got a big problem if you virtualize your DHCP and DNS.
This is obvious. The more likely failure mode is some goofy homemade thing. Like you can't boot any server including the database server unless the LDAP backend can succesfully talk to the database of user info, but you can't talk to the database unless its already booted, so..
If you actually have to be told this, I don't know what to say, but the analogy is if your virtualization system can't boot without working DHCP and DNS, you've got a big problem if you virtualize your DHCP and DNS.
This is obvious. The more likely failure mode is some goofy homemade thing. Like you can't boot any server including the database server unless the LDAP backend can succesfully talk to the database of user info, but you can't talk to the database unless its already booted, so..