Many administrators forget—or don't even realize—that they can configure Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) on Cisco IOS routers and switches. David Davis discusses the pros and cons of this ...

All Windows Server operating systems support Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) that businesses can use to assign IP addresses to computers on the company network automatically. DHCP lets ...

Years ago, I used to be a network administrator for an organization that had some rather odd security policies in place. One of the existing policies when I got there was that all computers had to be ...

On the Windows DHCP server did you set scope option 066? I know that I typically don't need to do this for Windows RIS but I figure it exists for other systems.

When I joined the company, I noted that a lot of name lookups were failing or pointing at the wrong machines. I also noted a staggering amount of old, outdated DNS records. Scavenging appeared to be ...

If you receive an error message which says— DHCP Lookup Failed —then it’s because of a misconfigured protocol on your computer. The error has been reported to ...

The next version of the popular DHCP server Kea is gradually maturing, but before that, the manufacturer is releasing extensions as open source and for testing. The Kea-DHCP software package, which is ...