Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
DHCP and Dynamic DNS Integration
The Windows Server 2012 DHCP service provides direct integration with the Dynamic DNS (DDNS). All Windows clients and servers are configured by default to register their name and IP address with the designated domain name system (DNS) server as configured manually or by DHCP on their respective network card IP settings. When a DNS server is configured to allow networking clients to automatically register their records within DNS zones, this functionality is referred to as Dynamic DNS registration. With a Windows Server 2012 DHCP server, this functionality can be extended to not only Windows clients leasing an IP address from the DHCP server but to any DHCP client. The DHCP server can, in fact, register the name ...
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