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DHCP and DNS Tips

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A Quick Tip To Modify The Interval For DHCP Database Cleanup: Date - Feb 18, 2010; Rating - 4; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can modify a registry entry to change the default interval for DHCP Database cleanup process.
A Quick Tip To Check If DCs Can Register Records With DNS Dynamically: Date - Jan 21, 2010; Rating - 4.5; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains a registry key which you can query to know if DCs are using Dynamic DNS protocol to register records with DNS Servers.
DatabaseName, DatabasePath and DHCP Server: Date - Jan 14, 2010; Rating - Not Rated; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains the DatabaseName and DatabasePath registry entries of DHCP Server.
A Quick Tip To Verify The SRV Records Of Domain Controllers: Date - Jan 27, 2009; Rating - 3.3; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can use the NSLOOKUP tool to verify the SRV records of a domain controller.
How To Change The Bakcup Interval Of DHCP Database: Date - Jan 06, 2009; Rating - 1; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains how you can change the Backup Interval of DHCP using a registry entry.
Service Records of Domain Controller used by Various Services and Components: Date - Dec 03, 2008; Rating - 2.8; Author - Nirmal Sharma; This article explains what all components or Services use the SRV records of domain controller.
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 - 2.1; 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 - 3.2; 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 - 3.6; 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 - 2.3; 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 - 3.5; 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 - 2.9; Author - Wayne Maples
How to Remotely Reconfigure IP from Static Addressing to DHCP: Date - Apr 20, 2004; Rating - 4.5; 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 - 2.9; Author - Wayne Maples