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 ...

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 ...

If Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) didn’t exist, network administrators would have to manually parcel out IP addresses from the available pool, which ...

I have my DHCP server (on Sonicwall) configured to give out the domain controller/DNS server ip as primary DNS, for secondary DNS I have set to give out 1.1.1.1, for tertiary 8.8.4.4 Does this comply ...

Rocky Linux has become one of the de facto standard replacements for CentOS. Not only is it a drop-in replacement for RHEL, but the maintainer Gregory Kurtzer has made it clear Rocky Linux will always ...

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 ...

Have you ever scrolled through the Windows Server DHCP logs in the Notepad app while trying to troubleshoot something? Then you know that it's a tedious task. There are many alternatives to Notepad ...

Microsoft has admitted that June's Patch Tuesday updates could break the DHCP service on Windows Server.… The update, released June 10, contains an issue that can affect Windows Server 2025, 2022, ...