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Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition

by Joe Casad
September 2008
Beginner
456 pages
11h 41m
English
Sams
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Dynamic DNS

DNS, as it has been described so far, is designed for situations in which there is a permanent (or at least semi-permanent) association of a hostname with an IP address. In today’s networks (as you’ll learn in the next hour), IP addresses are often assigned dynamically. In other words, a new IP address is assigned to a computer through Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) each time the computer starts. This means that if the computer is to be registered with DNS and accessible by its hostname, the DNS server must have some way to learn the IP address the computer is using.

The recent popularity of dynamic IP addressing has forced DNS vendors to adapt. Some IP implementations (including BIND) now offer dynamic update of DNS records. ...

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