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How DHCP distributes DNS information to your network

How DHCP distributes DNS information to your network

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How DHCP distributes DNS information to your network

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- [Voiceover] In the executive summary, I told you guys about how DHCP can hand out DNS information to client systems. And this is a really important concept that a lot of folks get wrong and they're confused about why their devices aren't able to access internal resources. So, that being said, I wanted to just get into our pfSense router, which happens to be the DHCP server for this little network, and, also, local DCHP settings, just so you get, sort of, a context thing. I'm going to show the DHCP in the network settings in OSX, but it would be the same in iOS or Android or Windows or whatever, it's just slightly different location for things. Okay, so, here we are in our pfSense interface. I'm in a web browser right now; I've got the bars kind of hidden so it cleans up the interface a bit. If you have a router that is doing DHCP for you, or maybe even a server, or who knows, maybe you're using pfSense to do a DHCP, then you'll have similar types of web configurations. You might be…

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