“The Slammer virus affected all the naming resolution pieces in the city,” says Mark Whitt, IS administrator for the city’s IT department. “We couldn’t get the vulnerability under control. So we began ...

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 ...

But then I am aware of others who feel it's best (if you have enough hardware) to keep the DCs as just DCs and DNS servers and have other servers (VMs or physical boxes) do DHCP and Print Serving.

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 ...

Administrators almost always rely on the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol service to automatically make IP address configurations available to clients. Though DHCP is an essential service on most ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol infrastructures contain a potential pitfall: rogue DHCP servers. They aren't a common problem, but when one is present, it wreaks havoc. Rogue DHCP servers are any ...

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 ...