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Manage on-premises IP addressing with DHCP, part 2

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Manage on-premises IP addressing with DHCP, part 2

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- [Instructor] When a computer obtains an IP address dynamically from DHCP, it will register the IP address that it has, in combination with its name, with its configured DNS server. Windows server, DNS servers, support the notion of dynamic updates so clients can update their own name records. The two records that are relevant here are a host record, which is often referred to as an A record, and a pointer record or PTR record. The A record defines the host name and its corresponding IP address, whereas the PTR record does the reciprocal. It provides the name of a record based on its IP. It's often used for security purposes. So the key point is something like Windows 11, when it starts up and gets a dynamic configuration, then connects to the DNS server that's been configured with, and updates its name records so that they're up to date. I mean, there's no real reason why a Windows 11 computer will obtain a different IP configuration, even if it is using DHCP. It's always…

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