Do DHCP and DNS Servers Communicate?
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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DHCP Server - Is This Your IP Address?
The client requests an IP address and the server replies back as a source to its IP address, 254.144.244. Now that the client has an IP address, what the DHCP knows is now it knows that there is a new guy that just joined our network, 144. And their host name is what? Their Jose Mac too, right? Because we got it from the request. Here's again, the domain domain name server is a domain name is all the information. If machine one joins as Jose and Mac and machine two join as you say, Mac to and there is no DNS server that knows this information, then if you ping machine one from machine two, you can't ping
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