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Best Practices – DNS

The Domain Name System (DNS) is used to translate human-readable website names (google.com) to the IP addresses (216.58.192.228) used to route data packets to the proper destinations. Typical business networks also have DNS servers internally to handle access to resources using hostnames or aliases. The DNS server is an extremely important component to a stable […]

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Best Practices – DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is used to provide connection settings for computers and equipment. Most often this is used to enable basic network access by providing IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, DNS servers, and domain name. A plethora of other options exist as well, typically referenced by number, and are used for specific […]

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