We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...

Systems administrators differ on the helpfulness of assigning static IP addresses for networked printers. Leaving the printers set to Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, would be the ...

Manage your network more efficiently with a framework for maintaining and auditing IP address assignment, DNS zone health monitoring and more. Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer ...

You can find the hostname of any computer with a public IP address by passing the address to any Domain Name System (DNS) server. However, since the computers on a small business network have private ...

Knowing how an IP address identifies a host on a network can be confusing. Before you begin calculating various addresses, you should know the fundamentals of IP addressing. Todd Lammle describes this ...

Ever wanted to just plug something in and conveniently read the hostname and IP addresses of a headless board like a ...

While the process to get up and running may not be the most intuitive, its worth the effort to take advantage of Microsoft's IPAM. One of the more useful features included in Windows Server 2012 and ...