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DHCP and DNS Tips

Title | Date | Rating
Using the DHCPLOC Utility
Date - Apr 20, 2006
Rating - 2.4
Author - Chris Sanders
The DHCPLOC utility can come in handy in a variety of situations. Here are some of those.
Disabling Caching of Failed DNS Lookups
Date - Apr 11, 2006
Rating - 3.7
Author - Mitch Tulloch
How to prevent caching of failed DNS lookups from preventing you from having DNS name queries resolved.
Managing SRV Records in DNS
Date - Mar 21, 2006
Rating - 2.3
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Tip for troubleshooting SRV records.
Being Paranoid About DHCP Server Availability
Date - Apr 05, 2005
Rating - 2.2
Author - Mitch Tulloch
If DHCP is absolutely critical to your network, be paranoid and keep a hot-spare DHCP server available.
Ensuring DHCP Server Availability
Date - Mar 29, 2005
Rating - 2.3
Author - Mitch Tulloch
Forget the 80/20 rule for DHCP server availability and use 50/50 instead.
Using Reservations to Ensure DHCP Server Availability and Security
Date - Mar 24, 2005
Rating - 3.5
Author - Mitch Tulloch
In high security environments you can use Reservations to ensure the security and availability of DHCP servers.
Putting Automatic Private IP Addressing to Work
Date - Nov 02, 2004
Rating - 3.1
Author - Ron Stewart
Since the release of Windows 98, Microsoft's operating systems have, by default, supported Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)--but how do you take advantage of it?
Windows 2000 Supported DNS Record Types
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 3.5
Author - Wayne Maples
Grant DNS admin start / stop service rights
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.8
Author - Wayne Maples
Manage the DNS resolver cache with IPCONFIG
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 3.8
Author - Wayne Maples
Manage the DNS resolver cache with IPCONFIG
Solve Windows 2000 DNS server problems
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 1
Author - Wayne Maples
DNS Server's Root Hints and Forwarder Pages Are Unavailable
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 1
Author - Wayne Maples
DNS Server Routes Queries to Root Name Servers in Addition to Forwarder
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Enable/Disable W2K Dynamic DNS Registrations
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.5
Author - Wayne Maples
DNSLint can verify DNS records
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.8
Author - Wayne Maples
Windows 2000 and DNS Comparison of Features
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.7
Author - Wayne Maples
DNS Server: Convert a DNS Server to a Root DNS Server
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 1
Author - Wayne Maples
DNSSEC resources
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Windows 2000 DNS Event Messages 1 Through 1614
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
Setting up and managing a DHCP server in Win2K
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.4
Author - Wayne Maples
Delays in Name Resolution Using Microsoft DNS Server Forwarder Option
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - Not Rated
Author - Wayne Maples
DNS Namespace Planning
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 1
Author - Wayne Maples
DNS Namespace: Create a Child Domain in Active Directory and Delegate the DNS Namespace to the Child Domain
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 3.7
Author - Wayne Maples
DHCP Stops Assigning IP Addresses to Clients
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 2.7
Author - Wayne Maples
IPconfig displays Windows NT/W2K/XP ip information
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 3.6
Author - Wayne Maples
DNS and Windows 2000 AD Issues
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 3.3
Author - Wayne Maples
Use jetpack.exe to compress WINS and DHCP databases
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 3.1
Author - Wayne Maples
How to Remotely Reconfigure IP from Static Addressing to DHCP
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 4.4
Author - Wayne Maples
How to Restore a Corrupted DHCP Database File
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 1
Author - Wayne Maples
nslookup and DNS Zone Transfers
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 4.2
Author - Wayne Maples
Export DHCP db
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 4
Author - Wayne Maples
Windows
Enable DHCP Logging
Date - Apr 20, 2004
Rating - 3
Author - Wayne Maples
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