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Working with DNS

Working with DNS

From the course: CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1102) Cert Prep

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Working with DNS

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- If you want to use DNS on your individual systems, you're going to have to set it up. Now, first of all, DNS is provided by your DHCP server. So if you're using DHCP, well then by golly, you should already have a DHCP server. Let's check on this system right here. To see what my DNS server is, I'm going to run ipconfig with the /all option. Now, if I run this, we should see it here. Here's my DNS servers. I only have one, and it's a local DNS server that's right here within my local area network. Doesn't have to be. With DHCP, it's actually pretty easy to set this stuff up. However, there are situations where you might want to statically configure your DNS. Let's do that right now. So I'm going to head once again over to my network and sharing center. Click on change adapter settings. Right click on the one I'm interested in. I'm going to select properties, and once again, I'm dealing with IP version four.…

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