Abstract: The security of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is crucial in ever-evolving networks because of its inherent vulnerabilities and, as a result, the possibility to disrupt network ...

Microsoft admitted that the June 2025 security patches had introduced a new problem that was causing some Windows Server systems’ DHCP service to stall. The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: Awhile back, you answered a DOSBox question for me (Geek Note: IGTM #723, May 30, 2021 and IGTM #779, Jun 26, ...

A few months back, I put together a big fat guide on how to configure DNS and DHCP on your LAN the old-school way, with bind and dhcpd working together to seamlessly hand out addresses to hosts on ...

DHCP, or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, is a protocol that is used to automatically assign IP addresses to your computer. It can also be used to configure other aspects as well such as the ...

If you receive an error message which says— DHCP Lookup Failed —then it’s because of a misconfigured protocol on your computer. The error has been reported to ...

An IP address is a way for every device on a network to be seen. Without IP addresses, it would be impossible for those devices to be located. Think of your computer's IP address like your house's ...

A new attack dubbed "TunnelVision" can route traffic outside a VPN's encryption tunnel, allowing attackers to snoop on unencrypted traffic while maintaining the appearance of a secure VPN connection.

Abstract: This paper proposes an extension to DHCP protocol, called E-DHCP (extended-dynamic host configuration protocol). This protocol is based on two principles. The first is the definition of a ...