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 ...

(A 'show dhcp server' does show this information as received.) I don't think the right answer is to manually add these items in the ip dhcp pool LOCAL section, since if they change (as they can), I ...

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 I also noted a staggering amount of old, outdated DNS records.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 ...