From the course: Windows Server 2025: Manage, Monitor, and Maintain Servers

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Lab networking setup

Lab networking setup

- [Tutor] Proper monitoring is going to require good communication, so we need to make sure that our devices can communicate with each other. So I'm going to go into the network and internet settings on my server called DC1 and go into ethernet. And you can see this is set to .150 with a subnet mask of 255 three times, which means it's a slash 24 subnet mask. And my gateway is pointed to my firewall, which takes us out to the internet. Now one thing to note is we see the DNS server. It's pointed to 8888, which is correct for a work group computer, a computer that's not a member of an active directory domain. But as soon as you make this a member of an active directory domain, or you make this a domain controller, which I'm going to do in an upcoming demonstration, you've got to point your DNS server back internally. So I don't have any other domain controllers as of yet, so I'm just going to go ahead and type 19216821.150. I can also do 127.001, which is the loop back address that…

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