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 ...
If Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) didn’t exist, network administrators would have to manually parcel out IP addresses from the available pool, which ...
A few tips on how to make sure the DHCP infrastructure issuing IP addresses isn’t a single point of failure. Redundancy is essential for dealing with both planned and unplanned outages, and that ...
A few months back, I put together a big fat guide on how to configure DNS and DHCP on your LAN the old-school way, with bind and dhcpd working together to seamlessly hand out addresses to hosts on ...